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The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line

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The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line - Golin, Steve, Professor
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For three weeks in 1970 and for eleven weeks in 1971, the schools in Newark, New Jersey, were paralyzed as the teachers went on strike. In the wake of the 1971 strike, almost two hundred were arrested and jailed. The Newark Teachers Union said their members wanted improved education for students. The Board of Education claimed the teachers primarily desired more money. After interviewing more than fifty teachers who were on the front lines during these strikes, historian Steve Golin concludes that another, equally important ...

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The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line 2002, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813530574

Hardcover