Prager University – Teachers Unions vs. Students
In a new video for Prager University, Stanford University professor Terry Moe talks about the road blocks teacher unions have placed in the way of education reform.
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Course Description
There is a dilemma in American education. On the one hand, teachers are essential to student achievement. On the other, teachers unions promote self-interests of their members which are antithetical to the interests of students. So, how do we fix this problem? In five minutes, Terry Moe, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, delineates this quandary and offers solutions.
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Professor Moe is still trapped in his statist paradigm. The fundamental problem is not the unions, it’s the state run education system. Everything done by the state is inherantly political. As long as the state is directly running the schools, all the decisions will be political.