Gender, Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and its Limitations

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ISBN: 9780815338178 | 0815338171
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Copyright: 8/3/2000

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Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study, this unique volume presents an unusually thorough and much needed holistic view of the NEA.

Preface

Professionalism in Process: The Reform of the National Education Association,1917-30

(42)

Professionalism Foreshadowed

(5)

The Challenge of Teacher Unionism

(4)

A Remodeled Structure and a Major Fault Line

(7)

The Expansion of the NEA Central Office

(8)

The NEA Research Division and Its Audiences

(7)

Profession or ``Professions''

(9)

Professionalism and Educational Equity: The National Education Association in the 1930s

(38)

The Great Depression

(2)

Fiscal Equity and New Leadership

(10)

Rivalry with the AFT

(3)

Equity for Women and Minority Teachers

(6)

Women and Equity on the NEA Staff: Charl Williams

(7)

The 1920s and the 1930s

(8)

War and Professionalism: The National Education Association, 1940-49

(48)

Another Emergency, Another Opportunity, and Another Commission

(6)

The Continuing Pursuit of Teacher Welfare

(3)

Association Finance in a Time of Crisis

(4)

Building Local Associations

(11)

Women Teachers and Black Teachers

106

(6)

Women on the NEA Staff: Mobility and Its Limits

112

(17)

An Exaggerated Sense of Accomplishment: The National Education Association in the 1950s

129

(42)

The NEA and the Federal Government

130

(4)

Teacher Welfare: Old and (a Few) New Approaches

134

(3)

Problems with Local and State Associations

137

(6)

Trouble at the Top

143

(4)

The NEA and the Women Teacher in the 1950s

147

(7)

The Specter of Unionization

154

(9)

NEA Response to Criticism

163

(8)

The Making of a Teachers' Union: The National Education Association, 1960-73

171

(40)

Turmoil in the NEA in the 1960s

172

(10)

Constitutional Reform and Its Consequences

182

(2)

The NEA and Political Action

184

(4)

Changes in the Relations of Local and State Associations

188

(3)

Militancy and the NEA Staff

191

(10)

Gender, Militancy, and the NEA

201

(10)

Desegregating the National Education Association, 1954-78

211

(34)

Desegregation of the NEA: Beginnings

214

(4)

Desegregation at the National Level

218

(2)

Early State Mergers

220

(4)

NEA Criteria for Mergers

224

(8)

The NEA and Desegregation in the 1970s

232

(6)

Organizational Consequences of Mergers

238

(7)

Back to Professionalism: The National Education Association in the Past Twenty-Five Years

245

(34)

The 1970s and the 1980s: An Overview

248

(2)

Unionization and the NEA Research Division

250

(4)

Collective Bargaining

254

(4)

Political Action and the AFT

258

(4)

The NEA, the AFT, and Educational Reform

262

(5)

Merger with the AFT

267

(4)

The New Unionism and the Old

271

(8)

Epilogue

279

(8)

Bibliography

287

(8)

Name Index

295

Subject Index

269

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Gender, Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and its Limitations

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