AFT-Speeches

In this speech at an AFT conference on full inclusion, Shanker addresses the issue of students with disabilities being place full-time into the regular classroom with no regard to the nature or sevarity of the student's disability. He is very skeptical of the new ideology. Shanker refers to the film "Educating Peter", which addresses the issue of inclusion done the right way.

Albert Shanker speaks in front of the AFT conference on full inclusion where he discusses the issue of full inclusion in the public schools. He reiterates that the AFT policy does not go along with blanket decisions on students with disabilities but on the nature of the disabilities. He goes through various points countering what full inclusion advocates say and making a point that the AFT is about inclusion, just not full inclusion.

In this speech before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and human Services, Education and Related Agencies, Shanker addresses the issue of the role of private management companies in Public Education.

In this speech, Shanker addresses the booklet entitled What are students abroad expected to know about Biology? He compares the state of the education system in other countries to the one in the United States. He is certain that if the United States does not establish standards like those of other prominent countries, the system of public education in the United States will fail.

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