New book from the Rennie Center highlights innovative “best practices” for improving labor-management relations in public education

“The new requirements of standards-based education, coupled with the increasing introduction of competition to traditional public providers, makes it imperative that the professionals in mainstream public schools find new, more effective ways of working together to improve student achievement,” writes Paul Reville, President of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, in the preface to the newly published Win-Win Labor-Management Collaboration in Education: Breakthrough Practices to Benefit Students, Teachers, and Administrators.

	Buy the Book Win-Win Labor Management Collaboration in Education: Breakthrough Practices to Benefit Students, Teachers, and Administrators can be purchased online at Edweek.org.

Edited by the Rennie Center, written by Linda Kaboolian and Paul Sutherland, and published by Education Week Press, Win-Win Labor-Management Collaboration in Education is a handbook for union leaders, teachers and managers offering innovative best practices on how to reform the collective bargaining process for the benefit of students.

Covering topics like “peer review,” “pay for performance,” and “school intervention processes,” this book provides a unique national review of path-breaking collective-bargaining agreements and illustrates how districts and unions are putting their shared interests in students and learning at the forefront of their work together. Strides made by districts throughout the nation are highlighted, as well as best practices implemented in major urban regions.