TY - GEN T1 - Conflicting missions? : teachers unions and educational reform A2 - Loveless, Tom, 1954- LA - English PP - Washington, D.C. PB - Brookings Institution Press YR - 2000 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm48689273 AB - "[The papers in this book] ask whether unions affect educational productivity, most notably in terms of an impact on student achievement. They analyze how teachers union function as professional organizations concerned with the occupation of teaching, as institutional actors defending interests within a bureaucratic system of education, and as political actors wielding influence on legislation and elections. Taken as a whole, these varying perspectives do not provide readers with a simple answer to the question of whether unions help or hurt educational reform. But the book does illustrate the many dimensions of the teachers unions' role in American education ..."--Page 2 CN - LB2844.53.U62 C66 2000eb SN - 9780815708018 SN - 0815708017 KW - Teachers' unions : United States. KW - Educational change : United States. KW - Enseignants : Syndicats : États-Unis. KW - Enseignement : Réforme : États-Unis. KW - Educational change KW - Teachers' unions KW - United States KW - Lehrergewerkschaft KW - Schulreform KW - USA KW - Electronic books. ER -