EDITOR’S WELCOME

Abstract

Teacher Unions and Education Policy: Retrenchment or Reform? is the third volume in the series Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis. A sound compilation of research and analysis by individuals who are well acquainted with the role of the teacher union movement in public education in America, this new volume has tremendous currency in discussing some of the most daunting issues of education and schooling today. In recent years, the public has been exposed to a barrage of pejorative views of labor unions, in general, and teacher unions, in particular – views that by and large condemn the unions as obstacles to efficiency and quality. This new volume also presents some of the contradictions and problems of our public education system and of the role that teacher unions play in it. But in contrast to the views of the unions’ foes, this volume has at its heart a concern to understand what the teacher unions have already contributed toward building a quality public education system for all children and to illuminate the objectives and potentials that the unions still must realize.

Citation

Camp Yeakey, C. (2004), "EDITOR’S WELCOME", Henderson, R.D., Urban, W. and Wolman, P. (Ed.) Teacher Unions and Education Policy: Retrenchment of Reform? (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities, Vol. 3), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. IX. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-358X(04)03012-8