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  • New Labor Forum Highlights: April 30th, 2018

    New Labor Forum Highlights: April 30th, 2018

    The New Labor Forum has a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. The wildly successful teachers’ strike in West Virginia earlier this spring has not only inspired walkouts in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado and…

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  • Sweden’s School Choice Disaster

    Sweden’s School Choice Disaster

    By Dyckman Welcome Data suggests that public education is most effective when parents, teachers, students and school administrators collaborate to focus on the individual needs of a child. A one-size-fits-all model of educating and measuring student achievement works well for some children, but leaves others desperately seeking public education alternatives. One alternative to the current…

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  • Who Should Control NYC Schools?

    Who Should Control NYC Schools?

    This post was originally featured at the Gotham Center. By Stephen Brier The issue of who should control NYC’s public schools, like the poor, apparently will always be with us. These days, or at least since Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral reign, that control centers on how many years the city’s mayor will be allowed to play…

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  • What’s Coming for Unions under President Trump

    What’s Coming for Unions under President Trump

    This post was originally featured at Labor Notes. By Penny Lewis With the election of Donald Trump as president and Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, we are entering a period of existential crisis for unions and our organized power. The coming months and years are going to call for a spirit of…

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