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    Teachers Unions: A Help or Hindrance in Diminishing Income Achievement Gap

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    Steitz, Laura
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    Washington and Lee University, Shepherd Poverty Program
    Academic achievement
    Teacher effectiveness
    Teachers -- Recruiting
    Teachers -- Salaries, etc.
    Teachers -- Training of
    Teachers -- Tenure
    No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (United States)
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    Capstone; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE]
     
    Laura Steitz is a member of the Class of 2010 of Washington and Lee University.
     
    A reform of the seniority rule, teacher tenure, teacher compensation, and working conditions is imperative for recruiting and retaining high quality teachers in high poverty schools. While teachers unions promote a reform of working conditions, and are beginning to collaborate with school districts on a reform of teacher pay, they stand in the way of educational reform in the cases of seniority and tenure. In order to eliminate the gap in achievement scores for low-income students, and thus to eliminate the educational attainment gap, teachers unions must abolish polices that keep ineffective teachers in the classrooms. [From Conclusion]
     
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