Democratic frontrunner calls for $315 billion investment—education activists, such as Lois Weiner, say it’s still not enough Story Transcript MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Great to have you all with us once again. Kamala Harris is hitting the campaign trail hard. She’s hitting a theme that’s not common in […]
Author Archives: Lois Weiner
Lois Weiner is a professor of education at New Jersey City University. She brings to her wide-ranging scholarship first-hand experience, as a classroom teacher and union officer. Professor Weiner's is the author of Preparing Teachers for Urban School , which was honored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for its contribution to research on teacher education. Her recent scholarship analyzes the global transformation of education and the role of teachers and teachers unions in resisting changes that are making education more unequal, explained in The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice (Haymarket Press, 2012).
