Why is it important to consider labor management issues when thinking about school improvement and increasing student achievement?
“It’s important to consider labor-management issues when thinking about school improvement and increasing student achievement. Because the level of cooperation that exists between faculty and administration is going to be a key determinant in the effectiveness of any reform strategies. And the purpose of our book is to underline the importance of collaboration in the face of massive new accountability demands being made on schools, in the face of increasing competition from outside schools, charter schools, private schools, and other kinds of educational competition, in the face of increasing demands from new teachers for more gratifying, more supported, more rewarding jobs. It becomes imperative on school leaders, both at the district level and at the individual school level, to create new, more flexible ways for professionals to work together in schools, to craft strategies for improving student achievement, which is the coin of the realm in terms of the way in which schools and scho
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