Shanker Institute

Democracy

The Albert Shanker Institute promotes discussions and sponsors research on the new challenges facing the world’s democracies, with an emphasis on the role of freedom of association, and universal education.

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Education

The Albert Shanker Institute pursues the mission of improving the public education system by promoting discussions, supporting publications and sponsoring research on new and workable approaches to ensuring that all public schools are good schools.

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Labor

The Albert Shanker Institute promotes discussions and sponsors research to explore innovative structures, services, and roles for unions as they work to meet the challenges of a changing economy and workforce.

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Resources

Public and Private School Segregation in the District of Columbia

This research brief presents an analysis of student segregation by race and ethnicity in the District of Columbia, with a particular focus on segregation within and between public and private schools.
Teaching in Context: The Social Side of Education Reform

Teaching in Context (Harvard Education Press, 2017) provides new evidence from a range of leading scholars showing that teachers become more effective when they work in organizations that support them in comprehensive and coordinated ways. The volume is edited by ASI senior fellow Esther Quintero and has a foreword by Andy Hargreaves.
Deconstructing the Myth of American Public Schooling Inefficiency

Bruce Baker and Mark Weber (Rutgers University) use existing research and original analysis to dismantle the common myth that U.S. public schools spend more money and get worse results than do other developed nations, and provide discussion and analysis of what can and cannot be learned from existing data.

Charter School Expansion & the Viability of Public Education

Wednesday, May 9, noon to 2:00 p.m., 555 New Jersey Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by the Shanker Institute and the American Federation of Teachers. More information and registration..

We Can't Graph Our Way Out Of The Research On Education Spending

The U.S. Education Department recently recycled a misleading graph intended to make a point unsupported by research. They can do better.
Where Al Shanker Stood: Labor Law Reform

In this reprint of a 1977 New York Times column, civil rights legend Bayard Rustin argues that every worker should have the right to organize and bargain collectively.
What Happened To Teacher Quality?

Teacher evaluation reform, which dominated education policy for years, is now in place throughout the U.S. Now comes the hard part: assessing its impact.

RT @MatthewAKraft: Teach stats/metrics at any level? Critiquing "The Graph" ⬇️ was the best discussion we have had in class all semester. S…

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Why American students haven't gotten better at reading, by @natwexler: https://t.co/RD9mg1D4JN

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Today's post: We can’t graph our way out of the research on education spending - https://t.co/zVMRhu3p87

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