The Future of Our Schools

In Reversing the Assault on Public Education, Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite the energy for teaching to efforts to self-govern and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research and her experience as a public school teacher and union activist, she explains how to create the teachers unions public education desperately needs. Lois Weineris a professor at New Jersey City University and has been a life-long teacher union activist who has served as an officer of three different union locals. She is the author of The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistanc e.

Lois Weiner is a lifelong teacher union activist and a professor of education at New Jersey City University. A former high school teacher, she is a specialist on urban teacher education and teacher unionism.