1. SHOULD TEACHERS STRIKE? AN UNANSWERED QUESTION.
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Oakes, Russell C.
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TEACHERS' strikes & lockouts ,TEACHERS & community ,EDUCATION ,COST of living ,PUBLIC institutions ,EDUCATION policy - Abstract
This article discusses factors which led teachers to go on strike. Between 1918 and 1954, only ten years passed without at least one strike of teachers in the United States. Six of these were boom years of the twenties the other four, 1931, 1932, 1938, and 1939, were years in which both teachers' salaries and the percent of the national income allotted to public schools were high when compared to the cost of living. Few social factors which led teachers to go on strike seemed to be a general lack of faith in or disinterest in the institution of public education within communities where the strikes occurred. This was reflected in a general decrease in the real financial support given to local education. Secondly some evidence was found which indicated that the public failed to understand the needs of the teachers, financial and other- wise. This, in turn, apparently resulted in humiliating poverty for teachers who may then have resisted the treatment accorded them by striking to improve their welfare.
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- 1960
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