Posted on 11/09/2005 8:52:18 AM PST by doug from upland
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Student drop-out rates are higher in areas where teachers' unions predominate than in areas which are not unionized, according to a study by Caroline Hoxby of Harvard University. The study, entitled "How Teachers' Unions Affect Education Production," appeared in the August 1996 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Starting with some background on the teachers' union movement:
Agency shops (in which unions collect dues from all teachers regardless of union membership) or union shops (where all teachers must join the union) were explicitly permitted in two states by 1970, 12 more by 1980 and another seven by 1990.
Now for the findings:
In nonunionized schools, lower student-teacher ratios and higher teachers salaries lead to reduced drop-out rates. However, in unionized schools, neither student-teacher ratios nor teacher salaries have a detectable effect on drop-out rates.
Free market analysts contend unions divert extra school resources into the things they care about -- higher teacher pay and the reduced effort required to deal with fewer students -- rather than into better student performance.
Source: Robert J. Barro (Hoover Institution), "Teachers' Unions Don't Deliver Quality," Wall Street Journal, September 27, 1996. |
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Does one exist?
BTTT
No idea.
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Funny this report didn't come out yesterday during the election.
I'm sure it was an innocent oversight on the part of the MSM.
http://www.educationpolicy.org/MLcolumn/MLcolumn-040201.htm
This article kind of blows the union connection outa the water...
A Blog on a teacher's strike in PA.
http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog.php?p=2936&cat=17&cp=73
The teacher's mindset is amazing. We deserve everything we demand.
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