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A Teacher’s Plea: The GOP Shouldn’t Write Off Educators
Weekly Standard| 1/21/13

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American Teachers: What Values Do They Hold?
Education Next | Winter 2008

In the Weekly Standard, Colleen Hyland argues that public school teachers have conservative values and could be easily wooed by the Republican Party. Changing the way Republicans talk about teachers would be a welcome first step, she writes. In the Winter 2008 issue of Ed Next, Bob Slater examined survey data on the values held by teachers and found that they are indeed more conservative than the general public on many issues.

-Education Next