In The News: Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education

Conversation

Elite women’s sports are predicted to generate US$1 billion in revenue in 2021.

El Diario

Since the pandemic began, teacher unions have played a significant role in the process of reopening public schools. This role has been characterized by a very cautious stance in allowing teachers to return to campus. And although not all districts must negotiate with their unions in order to open their doors, the truth is that, without the blessing of the union, will teachers go to work? Asks Bradley Marianno, a teaching assistant at the University. of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Education Week

Throughout the pandemic, teachers’ unions in many states and large districts have played a powerful role in negotiating school closures and reopenings. And with coronavirus cases surging around the nation, the labor groups are continuing to flex their political muscle, most often pushing for a more conservative approach to getting teachers and kids back in buildings.

Chalkbeat

In his victory speech, President-elect Joe Biden said it was a “great day” for America’s educators because “one of your own” would be in the White House, referring to his wife, Jill Biden, a member of the country’s largest teachers union.

The 74

President-elect Joe Biden might have won the White House, but his expansive education plan will soon hit a Congress that has far fewer Democrats than envisioned under the “Blue Wave” forecast prior to the election.

Sports Business Journal

The authors’ thought leadership is shared through the efforts of The Collective Think Tank. The Collective, Wasserman’s women-focused division, has assembled this global consortium of some of today’s greatest academic minds and industry leaders focused on gender parity and improvement.

Book Club Chicago

As Chicago weighs a school reopening plan for the year’s second quarter, one thing is conspicuously absent: an agreement with the city’s restive and powerful teachers union.

Bloomberg

Over the course of a few days in mid-May in Providence, in between homeschooling her 5- and 9-year-olds, grading undergrad research papers, baking bread, revising her first book, and co-chairing Brown University’s Healthy Fall 2020 Task Force over Zoom, Emily Oster sat down in front of her laptop with a steady supply of coffee.

The Athletic

Now that Allegiant Stadium is built and hosting games, the Raiders are on to their next project, one with a much larger social impact.

The Athletic

Now that Allegiant Stadium is built and hosting games, the Raiders are on to their next project, one with a much larger social impact.

New York Business Journal

The Collective, a division focused on women within Wasserman, is launching The Collective Think Tank this week to research multiple aspects of women and sports, including female fandom, purchasing power and gender inequities within the industry.

The Takeaway

Back to school looks a lot different this fall, and that’s in part due to teachers unions.