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Hania Sobhy – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Unions have played a decisive role in promoting democracy and social justice in Tunisia. In 2023, two teacher unions led a yearlong 'silent strike' of withholding student marks from administration. Based on interviews with 60 teachers, this article analyses teacher views on the unions and on ongoing protests. While unions are still considered the…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Strikes, Foreign Countries, Activism
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Atteberry, Allison; LaCour, Sarah E. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Context: In 2005-06, Denver became one of the first U.S. districts to implement a pay-for-performance (PFP) compensation system, and Denver's ProComp is now the longest-running PFP policy in the country. The national proliferation of PFP systems in education has been controversial, with mixed evidence and competing narratives about its impacts.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Compensation (Remuneration), School Districts, Teacher Strikes
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Sherfinski, Melissa; Hayes, Sharon; Zhang, Jing; Jalalifard, Mariam – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
We explore how two "happenings" representing different political, social, historical and economic influences converge to shape the narratives of preservice teachers and teacher educators in West Virginia. These happenings are the 2017-2018 edTPA roll out and the teacher strike of February 2018. We use the framework of sensemaking to…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Performance Based Assessment
Lubow, Arthur; Kasindorf, Martin – Newsweek, 1978
Sixty thousand students from the Los Angeles Unified School District are being bused. Parents are reacting to the legal order. In addition, increasing numbers of teacher strikes are occurring around the nation. The desegregation program taking place in Los Angeles, and the effects of teacher activism in other parts of the country, are described.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Busing, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Education
Francis, Ray – 1991
In March 1990, teachers in 80% of the counties in West Virginia participated in a teacher strike. In this study, 83 striking teachers answered 10 open-ended questions put to them either through an interview or a questionnaire. The information was analyzed through a thematic analysis process. Teachers overwhelmingly felt they were not given the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Rural Areas
Cooper, Bruce S. – 1982
Drawing on data about unionism in education as well as in other public and private sectors, this literature review focuses on three areas: the causes of collective bargaining in public education, the reasons for strikes by school employees, and the impact of unions on educational expenses and salaries. The author first discusses the factors…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Collective Bargaining, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education
Radecki, Henry; Evans, Susan – 1982
Focusing on the 1980 strike of public secondary school teachers in Sudbury, Ontario, this study examined attitudes of those involved; ascertained feelings toward the school system that may have emerged since the strike; and examined events, influences, and developments leading to the strike and prolonging the strike. The field study represented…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Economic Factors