Word: shanker
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...extra 1,500 bucks will not revitalize a profession, though. More important than better pay, say disgruntled teachers, is the need to improve the prestige and power of the job, to restore its practitioners' self-respect. Says A.F.T. President Albert Shanker: "We give people poor salaries, then we lock them in a room with a bunch of kids and instead of letting them teach a subject they know-Shakespeare or math-we have them doing everything else, teaching 'Living,' 'Loving,' 'Life Adjustment.' " Maintains San Francisco School District Administrator Carlos Cornejo...
...money ($115 million a year) and four career steps: apprentice, professional teacher, senior teacher and master teacher. Movement through the four stages would give teachers more pay for more responsibility. Those at the top could earn as much as 60% more than the base salary. The A.F.T.'s Shanker, for one, endorses the idea...
They made a distinctly odd couple. There was Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers and leader of the five-week New York City teachers' strike in 1968, standing beside President Reagan, whom Shanker had bitterly opposed in the 1980 election. Reagan is dedicated to granting tuition tax credits for private schooling and is determined to cut federal aid to public education. The A.F.T. is strongly opposed to both ideas. Indeed, just the day before Reagan's address last week in Los Angeles, Shanker issued a report card on the President and gave...
...mood of the delegates at the N.E.A. meeting was defensive. Said outgoing N.E.A. President Willard McGuire: "We've often been accused of speaking to our self-interests, seeking to reduce our work loads or increase our association's membership. That's a lot of malarkey." Shanker might have been warning the N.E.A. not to dig in its heels when he told his own convention, "We are living in dangerous times. Education is under attack...
...A.F.T. convention was Tennessee's Governor Lamar Alexander, a Republican, who has proposed a sweeping merit-pay plan for his state. It would create four career stages, ultimately allowing "master" teachers to earn 60% more than the base salary. The A.F.T. gave Alexander a standing ovation, and Shanker endorsed "the freshness of the idea that deserves a hearing...