Current Where We Stand columns, as published in American Teacher, can be found below.

• May/June 2009 - The time is ripe for real education reform
• April 2009 - The time has come to consider national standards
• March 2009 - Win-win partnerships with the community
• February 2009 - Protect the investments that make America strong
• December 2008/January 2009 - Challenges and opportunities

Where We Stand from 1997-2008, can be found indexed by year at right.

 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.

Visit the online archive of Al Shanker's Where We Stand Columns from 1970-1997.