John Tappen

In his book, Teacher Strike, historian Jon Shelton argues that teacher militancy and strike actions in the 1970s posed a problem for what he calls "Labor Liberalism," the dominant political ideology of the era, that American politicians were unable to…

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The object of confrontation politics is to polarize the slack by the impossible precept that you are either for children or against themRobert Leland, Keokuk School District Superintendent, 1970 When Iowa Republicans captured the state senate in the 2016 elections,…

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