Teachers, Unions, and Collective Bargaining in Public Education

For more than 15 years, Charles Taylor Kerchner has studied the implications of teacher unionization for administrators, teachers, and public education. In the early 1990s, he traveled the country, studying the relationship between teacher unions and educational reform. That research, financed by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the United States Department of Labor, was developed into a series of 14 case studies and two books, A Union of Professionals and United Mind Workers.

In addition to his doctorate from Northwestern University, Kerchner holds a BS and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Once on the staff of the St. Petersburg Times in a number of editorial and managerial positions, Kerchner is now the Hollis P. Allen Professor of Education at the Claremont Graduate School and a specialist in educational organizations and policy.

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