EdWeek Unveils Special Report on Labor-Management Collaboration
We here at Education Week are happy to announce a new special report, Joining Forces, on the concept of labor-management collaboration, reported and written by myself and several of my colleagues.
Just as with last year's special report on professional development, this is a very conceptual topic to write about.Scratch below the surface and you'll find a lot of different ideas about what the term "collaboration" means in an education setting, how to do it well, even whether it's a good idea.
While the report doesn't come to any firm conclusions about these issues, we've tried to get you thinking about them in somewhat deeper, more meaningful ways.
Though it wasn't an intentional decision, several of the stories deal with the issue of teacher evaluations. In retrospect, that makes some sense, given