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Bowman, J. C. – Crisis in Education, 1998
To move education forward, the United States needs teachers willing to challenge traditional teachers' associations. Independent teachers' associations, most of which began in the 1950s, were started primarily in response to compulsory union dues, monopoly bargaining, strikes, and the union's overtly political agenda. They support local control,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Politics of Education
