Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Class Warfare—Teachers Go On Strike With Paul Peterson

Why have teachers from coast to coast walked out of their classrooms over the past year to go on strike, and what can be done about it?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsFebruary 17, 2019
Area 45: Class Warfare—Teachers Go On Strike With Paul Peterson

Decades ago, a California teachers’ union executive described the notion of educators walking a picket line as “inappropriate, unprofessional, illegal, outmoded, and ineffective.” Paul Peterson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard, explains why that’s no longer the case as teachers coast to coast have walked out of their classrooms over the past year.

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