This article examines the legal and political significance of teacher unionization in rural and suburban school districts between 1960 and 1975. While most historians focus on the growth of unions in urban areas, strikes in outlying districts played a determinative role in the development of public sector labor law, particularly in the arbitration…

"Teacher Rights" and all their ancillary problems are a recent phenomenon for school boards and administrators. Court cases to define and support these new notions of teacher freedoms are escalating rapidly. Discusses the role of teachers in a changing society and six important trends that seem to be emerging from more than 100 court cases…