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"The Huffington Post" blog entries by AFT President Randi Weingarten

AFT president Randi Weingarten regularly contributes to The Huffington Post. Read her latest blog entries here.  
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    Where We Stand

    For twenty-seven years, the late AFT president Albert Shanker’s "Where We Stand" column in the New York Times offered an 800-word dose of straightforward common sense, reaching an audience far beyond the educational establishment. The column stands as a wonderful archive of Shanker’s far-ranging intellect, keen analytical abilities and no-nonsense ideas about how to improve schools.

    The complete collection offers an assortment of education and labor topics, and also spans important events and issues of the time, predicting what impact they have for us today.

 
 

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