Waiting to Be Won Over: Teachers Speak on the Profession, Unions, and Reform

This report from Education Sector surveyed 1,010 public school teachers of grades K–12 about challenges in their profession; their feelings on specific reforms aimed at improving teacher quality, such as differential pay proposals; and their general thoughts on teachers’ unions and the role unions can play in the improvement of teacher quality. The report compares the answers of new teachers (those who have been teaching for fewer than five years) to those of veteran teachers (those who have been teaching for at least twenty years).