https://reuther.wayne.edu/taxonomy/term/139 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/12432 <p>Bella Rosenberg served as the assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1984-2005, under Albert Shanker and Sandra Feldman. Albert Shanker was president of the AFT from 1974 to 1997. He was one of the first educators to embrace the findings of the report A Nation at Risk which outlined extensive problems in America’s public schools. Shanker and Rosenberg worked closely on various initiatives, many of them in response to the report. This included a peer review program started at the Toledo Federation of Teachers Local 250, a teacher certification program called the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and in 1988, the concept of charter schools, which later took on a life of its own and became very different from Shanker’s original vision. Beginning in 1970, while Shanker was still president of New York’s United Federation of Teachers, he wrote a weekly column in the Sunday New York Times titled “Where We Stand”. He had to purchase advertising space in order to publish his writing. The weekly column lasted for 26 years. Sandra Feldman became Vice-President of the AFT in 1974, president of the UFT in 1986, and took over presidency of the AFT upon Shanker’s death in 1997. She was also involved in the AFL-CIO and Education International, a worldwide federation of teachers’ unions. During her AFT presidency, she strengthened the union’s relationship with the National Education Association, though a vote to merge with the NEA did not pass. Feldman served as AFT president until 2004.</p> <p>Rosenberg collaborated with Shanker and Feldman on many projects and initiatives for the AFT. They worked together on articles and speeches, particularly Shanker’s “Where We Stand” column. Rosenberg was a primary force in AFT’s Lessons for Life Campaign in the mid-1990s, which sought to address issues raised in A Nation at Risk. Rosenberg worked on a report released by the AFT in 2004, for which she analyzed data from the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress to conclude charter schools were performing worse than traditional public schools. She also gave many of her own speeches and interviews as a representative of the AFT.</p> <p>The AFT President’s Office: Assistant to the President Bella Rosenberg Records contain correspondence, memos, notes, reports, manuscripts, books, brochures, press releases, surveys, minutes, VHS and audio cassette tapes, and photographic slides documenting the activities of the national office. The collection also contains articles, speeches, and testimonies, including, in some cases, multiple annotated drafts exchanged between Rosenberg and Shanker and Rosenberg and Feldman. </p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/12432#comments American Federation of Teachers Charter schools Clinton, Bill, 1946- Educational change Educational vouchers Feldman, Sandra National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project) National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (U.S.) Peer review Privatization Rosenberg, Bella Shanker, Albert United States. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:21:06 -0500 scaloia 12432 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3946 <p>Shanker is speaking in front of the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations or later named the "Dunlop Commission" specifically about the Yeshiva decision and hoping that they would reverse the decision legislatively. He gives examples of the rise of professional unionism in the United States, he sights organizing doctors at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, talks about the Toledo Plan or Peer Assistance and Review, Rochester Teachers Association and finally the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. After his statement, Shanker took a variety of questions. </p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3946#comments American Federation of Teachers Collective bargaining National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (U.S.) Peer Evaluation Shanker, Albert Yeshiva University Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:55:31 -0400 jruss 3946 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3775 <p>Al Shanker urges that the House pass legislation to provide funding for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards so that it might develop a licensing test for teachers similar to licensing tests in other professions. He argues that such a test would improve the quality of teacher training programs as well as providing effective standards for the profession.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/3775#comments American Federation of Teachers Licensing Examinations (Professions) National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (U.S.) Shanker, Albert Standards Teacher Certification Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:46:26 -0500 jruss 3775 at https://reuther.wayne.edu