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Article: SCHOOL SCAR TISSUE.(Editorial)(Column)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Byline: Linda Seebach
At a seminar last weekend for journalists who cover education, Harvard University researcher Linda Kaboolian summed up the difficulties of change in unionized school districts. "A contract," she said, "is the scar tissue of past battles."
Damaging and inflexible? Sounds about right.
The seminar was put on by the Hechinger Institute for Education and the Media, based at Columbia Teachers College. The presentations tilted toward the pro-union side, though not monolithically. Given the topic, that's not unreasonable. But what did surprise me a bit was that the audience apparently did the same. Questions from the journalists ...