n honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day, AFT and Shanker Institute President Randi Weingarten sat down with civil and labor rights icons Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill to discuss their memoir, Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism, a first hand account of their decades of work with Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Al Shanker to name a few.
Eric Chenoweth is director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe and principal author of Democracy Web, an online comparative study guide for teachers, students and civic activists. He worked with Bayard Rustin in various capacities in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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.
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.
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.
This report authored by Susan B. Neuman (New York University), Esther Quintero (Albert Shanker Institute), and Kayla Reist (University of Virginia), examines reading-related state legislation enacted between 2019 and 2022.
A national analysis of the relationship between K-12 revenue composition—that is, the percentage of funding that comes from state versus local sources—and the adequacy, equity, and stability of school spending.
This data visualization tool allows users to display each state's K-12 school revenue "portfolio" between 1998 and 2020, and to compare it with that in other states. The tool accompanies this report.
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.
