This is worth reiterating. While we read and hear a lot about how the unions must be smashed in order to make progress in education, these same voices don't seem to have any explanation as to why some places with very strong unions - Boora mentions Alberta and Ontario as examples - are at the very top of the PISA survey results. There is no correlation between busting unions and improving educational outcomes. None. Indeed, one wonders whether educational outcomes could be improved if certain critics (like the Wall Street Journal) were rather less partisan, and focused on improving education rather than playing politics.
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