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AAE Op-Ed: Shattering the Teachers Union Stereotype
posted by: Ruthie | February 24, 2014, 02:43 PM   


AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner's op-ed in the Washington Times:

Transforming education for the 21st century has become a top national priority. 

With seemingly countless emerging ideas and advocates, teachers are often overlooked as valuable allies. In order to promote positive and practical change in our system, we must listen to the devoted teachers on the front lines.

For too long, individual teachers' voices have fallen on deaf ears in favor of the self-preserving agenda of the teachers unions. Focused primarily on maintaining a system of forced dues and political power, the union's outdated model isn't serving a profession eager to embrace the future.

Do hard-working educators stand in solidarity with union leaders to protect the status quo? Hardly. To establish a credible teacher voice, we must recognize that teachers are not in lock-step agreement with unions as their leaders suggest.

Teachers are individual professionals with ideas and opinions valuable to the education-reform conversation. The vast majority of classroom teachers want to see students succeed and the profession evolve.

According to a survey released last week by the Association of American Educators, the largest national non-union professional educator organization, teachers across the country are embracing policies that promote flexibility and options.

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to read the entire article in the Washington Times.  

 

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