Lois Weiner

Lois Weiner is a professor of education at New Jersey City University and a member of AFT Local #1839. She co-edited with Mary Compton a collection of essays, the “ The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions: Stories for Resistance.” Her new book, “ The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice” describes how teachers unions can become social movements and why they need to make this change, now, to save public education and the profession.