AFT-Speeches
This area of the Reuther's Web site currently encompasses approximately 300, fully transcribed, speeches delivered between 1965 and 1996 by American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President's Charlie Cogen, David Selden and Albert Shanker. The speeches are organized chronologically by date. Please contact Dan Golodner for project details.
Quality Education Standards in Teaching (QuEST): “Serving Students' Interests: The Real Choices”
Posted March 13th, 2009 by jruss
Location:
Washington, D.C.Size:
61 pagesDate:
1987-08-02National Press Club
Posted March 13th, 2009 by jruss
Location:
Washington, D.C.Size:
38 pagesDate:
1987-09-09California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Posted March 1st, 2010 by jhelpap
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Shanker talks about testing students. He then talks about how the current education system cannot just be fixed, it needs to be overhauled; teachers need to be given raises, class sizes need to go down, teachers need to be given professional development opportunities and schools need to be organized differently.
Location:
CaliforniaSize:
29 PagesDate:
1987-11-0574th Annual Statewide Inservice: “Serving Students' Interests: The Real Choice”
Posted March 13th, 2009 by jruss
Location:
Albany, NYSize:
34 pagesDate:
1987-12-07california english: “Improving Our Schools: Drastic Change or Fine Tuning? An Interview with Albert Shanker”
Posted February 25th, 2009 by jruss
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Al Shanker answers Berkeley Education Professor Ken Lane's questions about education reform. Shanker believes that the recent focus on reform is good, but he thinks that not enough is being done to enact change. He states that recent efforts at reform change only slightly the way education has worked for years. Instead, Shanker calls for a drastic overhaul of the entire educational model. He says we need to engage students in ways other than reading and listening, noting that different students learn differently. read more »
Location:
nationalSize:
3 pagesDate:
1988-01-00, 1988-02-00