Resources

Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity

A descriptive analysis of the historical and contemporary relationship between racial segregation and K-12 school funding.

Voting Rights and Disability Rights Blog Series

The Early Years of the New York City Teachers Union

Post by Leo Casey which appeared on the Shanker Blog on April 30, 2020.

Oral History of Lorretta Johnson

Interview with Lorretta Johnson, a longtime Baltimore Teachers
Union and American Federation of Teachers leader.

Oral History of Deborah Meier

Interview with Deborah Meier who has been working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate since the early 1960s, and ranks among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement in the U.S.

Oral History of George Altomare

Oral History of Abe Levine

Interview with Abe Levine who was a founder of the UFT, a teacher for 16 years, the vice president for elementary schools for the UFT 33 years and an executive board member of the UFT for nearly 59 years.

In Solidarity With Those Who Share Our Purposes

This paper examines why the United Federation of Teacher's (UFT) got involved in with the Civil Rights Movement between 1963 and 1965.

The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems (fourth 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 and Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

Naming Lesson Handout