Charles Taylor Kerchner
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Charles Taylor Kerchner
Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus,
Claremont Graduate University
Charles Taylor Kerchner is a senior research fellow and professor emeritus in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University. His interest in educational technology is based on studies of large-scale institutional change and a belief that changes in how students learn are likely to drive a transformation in the structure of public education. He's a veteran policy researcher and has written extensively about education reform and teacher unions for numerous journals and publications and is author of several books, including United Mind Workers: Unions and Teaching in the Knowledge Society. He received his PhD from Northwestern University.
updated 2013
Publications by Charles Taylor Kerchner
In 1975, California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed the Rodda Act into law. Formally known as the Education Employment Relations Act (later changed to the Public Employment Relations Act), this statute gave the state's public school teachers…
Connecting Labor Relations and School Reform: A Report on Year Two of the Trust Agreement Project
Since September 1987, twelve California school districts and their teachers' unions have been experimenting with a new form of labor accord called an Educational Policy Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement Project is designed to enable teachers, as…
Broadening the Vision of School Labor-Management Relations—A First-Year Progress Report
The purposes of the Trust Agreement Project are (1) to develop new forms of school organization and new patterns of relationships among teachers and school administrators, and (2) to expand the range of labor-management discussions in education from…