from BookTV.org (ncludes links for purchasing the book, or viewing RealPlayer recording of the program):
Richard Kahlenberg talks about the life and career of Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1984 and president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1974 to 1997. Commentary is provided by Eugenia Kemble [...]
Category Archives: Professions
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker
December 16, 2007 – 1:15 pm
Rod Paige v. Teachers Unions (BookTV)
May 17, 2007 – 7:17 pm
Remember when Bush’s Education Secretary Rod Paige called the NEA a terrorist organization? Well, he’s Baa-ack — with his new book: The war against hope: how teacher unions hurt children, hinder teachers, and endanger public education.Click the title (above) for detailed information on the book, and to check your local libraries on WorldCat (with link [...]
Time now for a new Constitutional Convention?
October 13, 2006 – 3:19 pm
Jeff Weintraub’s post Re: Jefferson, Madison, & Burke on the US Constitution includes his own comments, followed by the text of a review by Cass Sunstein in The New Republic of a book by Sanford Levinson on how the US Constitution is and has been viewed, and used, from the contrasting views of Jefferson and Madison to the present day. I think there’s a lot here (in the book, review, and commentary) that could be put to great use in social studies.
