Transcription of HOW STRONG ARE U.S. TEACHER UNIONS? A STATE-BY …
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sense of our data. In the end, we learned a ton—about individual states, about national patterns, Everyone knows that teacher unions matter ... indirectly, but there’s no strong evidence to support their link to student performance. We also have a timing problem since
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