{"id":532,"date":"2010-05-22T20:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T00:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=532"},"modified":"2010-05-22T20:20:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T00:20:32","slug":"unions-and-the-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Unions and the NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that every education blogger will take a whack at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/magazine\/23Race-t.html\">this article<\/a> and lay out some of the issues with this article.  I got to thinking, though, about longevity.  Fifteen years into the charter school movement, is there any evidence that schools without unions are producing &#8220;veteran&#8221; teachers, i.e., those who have taught for many years?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhatever one thinks of teacher unions, they make it possible for people to build long careers.  And while longevity doesn&#8217;t necessarily create effectiveness, it does allow for a kind of institutional wisdom that is lost when teaching staffs turn over every three years.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWho would sign on to teach in an inner-city system knowing that even if you broke yourself for ten years you could still lose your job?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that every education blogger will take a whack at this article and lay out some of the issues with this article. I got to thinking, though, about longevity. Fifteen years into the charter school movement, is there any evidence that schools without unions are producing &#8220;veteran&#8221; teachers, i.e., those who have taught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unions and the NYT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-8A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}