Teachers' Union National Leader Visits Philadelphia Philadelphia's teachers' union got some national help to make their argument that schools can improve without the wholesale closings and charter takeovers that have been proposed.
Declining School Enrollments Philadelphia is cited in articles about the national trend in declining school populations and its effects. Detroit and Cleveland are in similar situations.
What Numbers Say - Or Don't Say - About TeachersRandi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers writes a revealing article in <em>The New York Times</em>, “Education by the Numbers.”