AFT

NEA

·        Participates in national elections

·        Lobbying

·        All educational workers, higher education, nurses, etc.

·        Affiliated with AFL-CIO

·        Early success with collective bargaining

·        Labor organizations involved in mediation

·        Roots in pension and salary struggles

·        Context of labor unions and labor law

·        Historical struggle against big business

·        Goal to increase professional and social standing of teachers

·        Studies teaching in context of larger social and economic movements

·        No strike policy until recently

·        Work against gender discrimination

·        Recent conservative changes, philosophy of education to advance economy

·        Supporter of standards and small class size

·        Concerns about charter schools being too homogeneous (exclusive)

·        Concerns about for-profits invading schools

·        Participates in national elections

·        Lobbying

·        Only workers in a school organization

·        No outside affiliation

·        Now represents more schools in collective bargaining

·        Active in creating curriculum proposals, policy statements

·        Shaped modern high school (Charles Eliot, Committee of Ten)

·        Standardization of teacher training

·        ASCD grew from NEA

·        1962—began collective bargaining

·        Educational associations do mediation

·        Seek equity in financing schools

·        Supporter of smaller class size

·        Mixed support for standards

·        Concerns about homogeneity of charter schools