In doing research for my boss here at IPSI, I ran across a bio of a man I had never heard of that has had an out sized effect on the teacher union and education reform movements, interesting read and an interesting guy.
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v89/k0806kah.htm
By Richard D. Kahlenberg
The author of the recent biography of Albert Shanker discusses the union leader's life and work and its implications for the future of American education.
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Al Shanker was an amazing guy and if you ask at the right moment in class, I;ll tell some enlightening and funny stories about him. Somewhere in the mess of my office is a picture of the two of us at a meeting with the Philadelphia AFT local in 1990.
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