By P.D. Lesko Jack Longmate is a renegade in the best sense of the word. He is saying out loud a long-hidden truth: in most locals, education unions…
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I am floating on a cloud today. Why? Well, for about as long as I can remember, I've thought unions that negotiate contracts that call for pay…
Sandra Schroeder is feeling misunderstood. I wrote about her in an earlier post. More specifically, I wrote about her testimony in front of legislators in Washington State…
By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy.…
Surf the net to the web pages of part-time faculty unions affiliated with any of the Big Three labor unions and look at the posted budgets. Hell,…
One frequently reads in the newspaper and magazine articles published about part-time faculty these days (many of which are authored by tenured or tenure-line faculty) that a…
Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language…
First, President Obama announces to the world that he's in favor of merit pay for teachers. If you listened hard enough, you could almost hear the audible…
By nature I am somewhat competitive. Let's just say that if your token lands on Boardwalk and I have a hotel there, you're not getting a break…
You know how I hate just linking to someone else's writing. It's, well, so unoriginal. However, in today's edition of InsideHigherEd.com, Greg Zobel has an essay titled…
