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Teachers Unions 101 provides an overview of how teachers unions violate teachers' individual rights by forcing them to support political causes via coerced payment of union dues, and how they continually stifle progress in education reform. In their defense, teachers unions claim that they regard teaching as a noble and vital profession, and that they place the interests of our children above all. Yeah, right! Frederick Hess (American Enterprise Institute) and Martin West (Brookings Institution) rightly expose the unions' hypocrisy: “The NEA and AFT have long argued that what is good for America’s teachers is good for America’s children—and by implication, for America itself. As a general statement this is demonstrably false, and the willingness of too many superintendents, school boards, legislators, and governors to act as if it were true has had a pernicious effect on the quality of American schooling.”

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