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  • Education International 8th World Congress 2019 Bangkok Thailand Panels

    "Whither Brexit: The View from British and Irish Teacher Unions

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  • Randi Weingarten's Remarks at the Women's March January 21, 2017

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  • How Relationships Matter In Educational Improvement

    This short presentation explains some shortcomings of mainstream education reform and offers an alternative framework to advance educational progress.

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  • Let's Talk Video

    This video is part of the Let’s Talk initiative, a program aimed at raising community awareness and expertise in how a child’s knowledge and language develop in tandem, forming the foundation for all subsequent learning.

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  • American Labor Movement At A Crossroads: New Thinking, New Organizing, New Strategies

    The emergence of the global knowledge economy has revolutionized the nature of work in America – for the worse. Unionized, well-paying private sector jobs that were once a ladder to the middle class have been decimated.
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  • The Emergence of the "Precariat": What Does the Loss of Stable, Well-Compensated Employment Mean for Education?

    The emergence of the global knowledge economy has revolutionized the nature of work in America – for the worse. Unionized, well-paying private sector jobs that were once a ladder to the middle class have been decimated.
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  • The Early Language Gap is About More Than Words

    The vocabulary gap between rich and poor children develops very early and it is about more than just words. In fact, words are the tip of the iceberg. So what lies underneath? Find out by watching this three-minute video.

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  • The Next Generation of Differentiated Compensation: What Next?

     This panel will examine the terrain of teacher compensation from a number of different perspectives, offering their recommendations on what a good compensation

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  • How Do We Get Experienced, Accomplished Teachers into High-Need Schools?

    If a master designer had created American education as we know it, he would have to be a Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor and giving to the rich. American students with all of the advantages of wealth are disproportionately taught by the best prepared, most experienced and most accomplished teachers, while students living in poverty with the greatest educational needs are disproportionately taught by novice teachers who were poorly prepared and who receive inadequate support.
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  • A New Social Compact for American Education: Fixing Our Broken Accountability System

    Twelve years after the passage of No Child Left Behind and five years into Race to the Top, America finds itself in a ‘test and punish’ system of school accountability that poorly serves the nation and its students.

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Publications

  • The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems (Seventh Edition)

    A national evaluation of the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and D.C., published by researchers from the Albert Shanker Institute, University of Miami, and Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

  • Does Money Matter in Education? (Third Edition)

    A comprehensive review of the research about the effect of K-12 school funding on student outcomes.

  • Reading Reform Across America

    This is a project led by Susan B. Neuman (New York University), in collaboration with Esther Quintero (Albert Shanker Institute), and Kayla Reist (University of Virginia). The project examines reading-related state legislation enacted since 2019.

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The Albert Shanker Institute, endowed by the American Federation of Teachers and named in honor of its late president, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to three themes - excellence in public education, unions as advocates for quality, and freedom of association in the public life of democracies. With an independent Board of Directors (composed of educators, business representatives, labor leaders, academics, and public policy analysts), its mission is to generate ideas, foster candid exchanges, and promote constructive policy proposals related to these issues.

This blog offers informal commentary on the research, news, and controversies related to the work of the Institute.

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