عنوان

American Teachers, American Workers:

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TLpq2385399515

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

American Teachers, American Workers:

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Knudsen, Andrew T.

Title Proper by Another Author

AFT, NEA, and the Politics of Performance, 1945-2015

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Nelson, Adam Rolf

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Wisconsin - Madison

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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555

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

The University of Wisconsin - Madison

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2020

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This dissertation examines the ways in which the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association changed their national policy positions over time regarding performance-based compensation systems for teachers as alternatives to the single-salary schedule. Looking closely at the period from 1945 to 2015, this dissertation gives special attention to how both organizations responded to advocates of "merit pay," including conservative anti-tax groups who wished to curb rising educational costs, the American corporate community and its desire to advance performance-based initiatives in the name of improved educational productivity and human-capital development, and, in the last decades of the twentieth century, social justice advocates who supported performance-incentives in hopes of improving school outcomes for poor minority students. This dissertation argues that the interaction between teachers unions and performance-incentive plans reveals much about the changing role of teachers as workers in post-war American state building.

American Federation of Teachers

Equal educational opportunity

National Education Association

Performance incentives

Single-salary schedule

Teachers unions

Knudsen, Andrew T.

Nelson, Adam Rolf

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[Thesis]

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