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Teacher Work and Teacher Unions<\/a><\/div>\n
This site, named Mindworkers, is witness to my central belief that teachers think for a living, and ought to be organized as professional workers with expansive rights and responsibilities rather than industrial workers.\u00a0 This theme is most completely developed in United Mind Workers: Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society. Although it was published by Jossey-Bass in 1997, most of the ideas in the book are still current and the ...
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‘Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education’<\/a><\/div>\n
It has been nearly a decade since Learning from L.A. was published by Harvard Education Press.\u00a0 In many ways, it is among the best work I have done in my academic career.\u00a0 In some other ways, it is a disappointing, blowing-into-the-wind book because the underlying message has not been received or acted upon.\u00a0 The politics of education\u2014like politics in most of the rest of the country\u2014is polarized, and the parties ...
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Teacher-Run Schools<\/a><\/div>\n
Teacher run schools fascinate me as a special case of producer\u2019s cooperatives.\u00a0 They are experiments in self-organization, alternatives to traditional hierarchies, expansion of traditional teacher roles, and over time the re-creation of role specialization. The first piece in this series is a case study of Avalon School in St. Paul, MN and schools in Milwaukee. It was written in 2010 and is available in pdf\u00a0form here, and appendix here.\u00a0 The ...
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The Emperor’s Clothes: Traditional and “Avant Garde” at High Tech High<\/a><\/div>\n
Author: Charles Taylor Kerchner - High Tech High may be the only school in the country that has an Emperor. Rob Riordan took the tongue-and-cheek title of \u201cemperor of rigor\u201d partly to address the expectations of visitors looking for someone in authority and partly as a serious joke, a conversation starter about how HTH views student achievement. It\u2019s not about test scores. From the start, one is led to expect ...
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Learning 2.0: The Next Generation of Education<\/a><\/div>\n
In January 2012, I posted\u00a0The Politics of Learning 2.0: From Governance to Capacity Building\u00a0and offered thanks and acknowledgement to the Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation for their financial support of the research leading up to it. This report is the last of the pieces planned as part of the project.\u00a0\u00a0However, there are more recent blog posts, and readers are invited to explore them in the blog space and archives. The ...
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The California Virtual Academy<\/a><\/div>\n
Authors: Laura Steen Mulfinger and Charles Taylor Kerchner - The California Virtual Academy (CAVA) joins similar schools in other states as a growing presence in public education. This case study examines the operations and structure of CAVA and its corporate parent, K-12. The full case is available by clicking here ...
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God’s Politics: A Personal Introduction<\/a><\/div>\n
In 2010, I gave a talk that grew out of reading Jim Wallis'\u00a0God's Politics, relating it to the prophets in my own life, not all of whom were overtly religious. \u00a0Here's the text ...
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‘Distrupting Class’, The Internet, and the End of Batch Processing<\/a><\/div>\n
Disrupting Class\u00a0is a most provocative book, in part for its bold prediction that by the end of the decade half of high school classes will be taught with via computers and smart software. If the authors are even half right, the change will be sweeping. But the book should not be read as a text about technology; it is about institutional change and the end of the batch-processing mode of ...
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For Teacher Unions: Things That Go Bump In The Night<\/a><\/div>\n
Author: Charles Taylor Kerchner - Two forces will fundamentally change public education and deeply challenge the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. I will describe them, and then, I will pull the long-legged beasties out from under the bed, and try to show that they can, indeed, be your friends. Both these forces involve networks. Computer networks that can teach or at least supply much of smartware ...
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Firing Bad Teachers, Just Try<\/a><\/div>\n
The sound you hear is the lid being pried off Pandora\u2019s Box.\u00a0\u00a0Jason Song\u2019s\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0investigation of efforts to dismiss teachers in California makes public what practicing educators have known for decades: that it is almost impossible to fire a tenured public school faculty member for teaching badly.\u00a0\u00a0Song\u2019s articles are the most viewed on the\u00a0Times\u00a0web site in the past week; they induced more than 1,200 comments from readers.\u00a0\u00a0The second installment about ...
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The Relationship Between Teacher Unionism and Educational Quality: A Literature Review<\/a><\/div>\n
It was easier to find assertions about the connections between teacher unionism and student achievements than find credible evidence. Major studies found both positive and negative effects, and there is considerable methodological debate about methods used. In general, the effect size is not great and often the quality of the data do not warrant the sweeping generalizations made about the research conclusions. There is also a considerable body of research ...
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United Mind Workers: Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society<\/a><\/div>\n
United Mind Workers\u00a0was published by Jossey-Bass in 2008 and is still available at Amazon and other booksellers. \u00a0 CHAPTER ONE Organizing the Other Half of Teaching Book ideas are born in odd places. After a gestation period that would frustrate an elephant, this one revealed its true form in an elevator. A National Education Association organizer approached Charles Kerchner, saying, \"These changes you're talking about-it's not just reforming the union ...
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Charter Schools and Collective Bargaining: Compatible Marriage or Illegitimate Relationship?<\/a><\/div>\n
In this article published in the\u00a0Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, (Summer 2007) 30:3, Martin Malin and I examine the legal tradition that supports the industrial definition of teaching work in light of the avowed intent of charter school legislation to crate high performance\/high involvement work places. The article concludes that embedding methods of worker representation in the charter itself, instead of in labor law, provides the best mechanism ...
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Negotiating What Matters Most: Collective Bargaining and Student Achievement<\/a><\/div>\n
Despite a statutorily narrow scope of bargaining, the scope of topics of union-management discussions has widened over the last 20 years, resulting in the birth of reform, or professional, unionism. But over the last half decade, professional unionism has waned. School management often refuses to see unions as partners, politicians fail to view unions as legitimately speaking for education change, and unions themselves are reluctant to assume added responsibility. In ...
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Encounters with A Hoosier God<\/a><\/div>\n
A personal essay about growing up Presbyterian in Indiana in the 1950s. \u00a0Originally written in the late 199s and revised in 2005. I have a memory, recessed deeply in boyhood, of a towhead furiously peddling a balloon-tired single speed bicycle pretending it was a Corvette\u2026peddling toward Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Indianapolis in the \u201850s was just down the sociological and chronological road from the Middletown of 1927.[1]\u00a0 When later I read ...
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A Union of Professionals<\/a><\/div>\n
In A Union of Professionals,\u00a0Julia Koppich and I show how teaching could be organized around professional rather than industrial principles. \u00a0The book was published in 1993 by Teacher's College Press. \u00a0It is out of print, but copies are available on Amazon, and I have a few mint-condition copies. The following summary is not taken directly from the text: Teacher unions, which are frequently viewed as part of the problem with ...
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Peer Review’s Advantages for Teachers, Schools, Kids<\/a><\/div>\n
Julia Koppich and Charles Kerchner, in\u00a0Sacramento Bee,\u00a0 1\/21\/1999, p. B9. Gov. Gray Davis' proposal for peer review for teachers comes at a good time, with a November Lou Harris poll showing that nearly 90 percent of Californians rate \"ensuring a well-qualified teacher in every classroom\" key to increasing student achievement. Current methods of evaluation neither identify poor teachers nor help already good teachers continue to improve. Peer review could remedy ...
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