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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Daily Kos: Why Tenure and Unions?: On Democracy and Equity in the U.S.

Daily Kos: Why Tenure and Unions?: On Democracy and Equity in the U.S.:


Why Tenure and Unions?: On Democracy and Equity in the U.S.

Howard Zinn would have turned 90 a couple of days ago. I have to imagine after reading and re-reading most of Zinn's works that if Zinn were alive today, he would remain baffled at how America is a country antagonistic to unions and tenure, especially teachers unions and tenure.
Zinn was a radical historian, activist, and in my opinion, most of all a teacher. And it is at the overlap of Zinn as historian/activist/teacher I find his People's History of the United States an invaluable place to ask, Why tenure and unions [1]?