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Teachers and Reform:

Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970 (POD)
  • ISBN-13: 9780252032721
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By John F. Lyons
  • Price: AUD $102.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2008
  • Format: Hardback 312 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Drawing on archival as well as rich interview material, John F. Lyons examines the role of Chicago public schoolteachers and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in shaping the policies and practices of public education in Chicago from 1937 to 1970. Using political action, public relations campaigns, and community alliances, the CTU successfully raised members' salaries and benefits, increased school budgets, influenced school curricula, and campaigned for greater equality for women within the Chicago public education system. Taking into consideration the larger political context, such as World War II, the McCarthy era, and the civil rights movements of the 1960s, this study analyzes how the teachers' attempts were constrained by internal divisions over race and gender as well as external disputes between the CTU and the school administration, state and local politicians, and powerful business and civic organizations.
''Teachers and Reform provides an excellent narrative of teachers' unionization in Chicago from 1929-70. Lyons makes effective connections between city politics and the rise of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and between the rise of black political consciousness and the crisis of the CTU.'' James R. Barrett, author of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
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