Resources

Articles

Politics As Usual for Teachers Union: From anti-Israel rallies to incoherence on school reform, the union places politics above helping students. (Oct.8, 2006)

A Few Things All Educators Should Know About Teacher Unions --- But the National Education Association Won't Tell Them by David Denholm

How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?  by Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters

Kill Union Special Interests by Cindy Omlin and Mark Mix

Management 101 for Our Public Schools by Terry M. Moe

NEA, AFT Annual Meetings Resemble Political Conventions by Ted. P. O'Neil

Teacher Choice, by Alveda King

Teachers, did you forget to do your homework on 403(b) plans? by Lynn O'Shaughnessy

Teachers' Pets -- Wall Street Journal editorial explains where the NEA is spending your dues

Teaching Boys and Girls Separately by Elizabeth Weil

The NEA Pyramid - The View Changes as You Rise to the Top of the Nation's Largest Union -- a Special Report of the Educational Intelligence Agency

Union's Advice Is Failing Teachers by Kathy Kristof

Books

Understanding Teacher Contracts by Andrew Rotherham

Free Choice For Workers -- A History of the Right To Work Movement by George C. Leef

Power Grab - How the National Education Association is Betraying Our Children by G. Gregory Moo

The Teacher's Unions -- How They Sabotage Educational Reform and Why by Myron Lieberman

The Trouble With Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion
by Gary Tobin and Dennis Ybarra

The Worm in the Apple -- How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education by Peter Brimelow

The War Against Hope - How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education by former U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr.  Rod Paige

 

Blogs

PERDAILY Written by a LAUSD teacher, the posts about education reform are very provocative - www.perdaily.com

Educational Intelligence Agency, a fantastic inside source of education-related and union information – www.eiaonline.com

Right On The Left Coast - Views of a Conservative Teacher, written by a Sacramento-area high school math teacher – rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com

Joanne Jacobs, an exceptional education blog by a former columnist and current freelance writer – www.joannejacobs.com

The Education Wonks, an education blog best known for its Carnival of Education, a weekly collection of education posts from around the blogosphere – educationwonk.blogspot.com

Ed Policy - http://ed-policy.blogspot.com

Dropout Nation - http://dropoutnation.net

Eduwonk - http://www.eduwonk.com

Jay Greene - http://jaypgreene.com

The Quick and the Ed - http://www.quickanded.com