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Comprendiendo los objetivos y supuestos del reporte del Banco Mundial, “Profesores Excelentes: Cómo elevar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”

lois weiner, professor of education, New Jersey University, USA & mary compton, independent researcher, UK

15th June 2016

Analizamos de qué manera los sindicatos de maestros en otros lugares del mundo están respondiendo de manera general al movimiento Global de...

Austerity as an opportunity for union revival: Quebec public school teachers

Jean-Noel Grenier, Industrial Relations Dept, Laval University Quebec et al

22nd March 2016

This article proposes an account of how two teachers’ labour federations have been reacting to austerity measures in public education....

Scrutinising how the World Bank's project for educational reform in Latin America and the Caribbean substitutes ideology for evidence

Lois Weiner, Director, Urban Education and Teacher Unionism Policy Project, New Jersey City University, US & Mary Compton, Independent Scholar, www.teachersolidarity.com, UK

4th January 2016

In July 2014, the World Bank released Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean. In its six chapters...

The unexpected crop: social insurgency and new alternatives for education in Mexico

Hugo Aboites, Professor of Education, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City

19th February 2015

During 2013, México was inundated by massive protests organized by hundreds of thousands of the close to two million teachers that form the...

Standing up for Education: Building a National Campaign

Gawain Little, Executive Member, National Union of Teachers, UK & Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary, National Union of Teachers, UK

18th September 2014

This article is reproduced by kind permission of FORUM, Vol 56, No 2, 2014.Over the past four years the UK government has made significant...

Campaigning against Neo-liberal Education in Britain

Bernard Regan, Past Executive Member UK National Union of Teachers

2nd June 2014

The author outlines the development of neo-liberal education policies in the UK, including privatisation, local management, standardised...