EPI Bios

Dr. Myron Lieberman

Chairman, Education Policy Institute

Dr. Myron Lieberman is Senior Research Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He is the author or co-author of fifteen books and scores of articles on educational policy and teacher bargaining; his most recent were Handbook on School Board/Union Relations (scheduled for publication in 1998), Teachers Evaluating Teachers: Peer Review and the New Unionism (Transaction Publishers, 1998), and The Teacher Unions (The Free Press, 1997).

In addition to his publications, Dr. Lieberman has been involved in every phase of teacher union activities. He is a life member of the NEA and retiree member of the AFT and has been a frequent delegate to state and national conventions of teacher unions. From 1972 to 1975 he directed the Teacher Leadership Program, a training program for teacher union leaders on public policy issues. In addition to serving as an expert witness or consultant to the NEA and AFT, Dr. Lieberman was a candidate for national president of the AFT in 1962, receiving approximately one third of the convention votes. Subsequently, he served as a labor negotiator for school boards in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Arizona, California and New Jersey, with responsibilities for grievances and unfair labor practices as well as contract negotiations.

Personal Data

Office

Education Policy Institute
PMB 294
4401-A Connecticut Avenue,NW
Washington, DC 20008-2322
Phone: (202) 244-7535
Fax: (202) 244-7584
Email: lieberman@educationpolicy.org

Education

• McKinley Grade School, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Central High School, St. Paul, Minnesota, Graduated June 1937
• Bachelor of Science (Law) June 1941, University of Minnesota
• Bachelor of Science (Education) August 1948, University of Minnesota
• M.A. (August 1950), University of Illinois
• Ph.D. (February 1952), University of Illinois

Military Service

• 1942-1946 Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Hawaii, Australia, New Guinea, Biak, Philippine Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Discharged January 31, 1946 with rank of S/Sgt.

Experience

Senior Research Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 (1991-present); Chairman, Education Policy Institute, a research and policy organization devoted to market approaches to education (1995-present); President, Educational Employment Services, a consulting firm specializing in school district employment relations (1976-94); Visiting Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania (1986-88); Visiting Professor of Education, Ohio University (1984-86); Distinguished Professor, University of Southern California (1975-77); Professor of Education, The City University of New York (1969-75); Professor, Assistant Dean for Professional Studies (1963-69, 1963-64), Director of Education R & D, (1965-67), Rhode Island College; Professor of Education, Hofstra University, New York (1962-63); Consultant, Rand McNally Company, Skokie, Illinois (1961); Director of Basic Research, Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland (1959-60); Chairman, Department of Education, Yeshiva University, New York City (1956-59); Assistant Professor of Education, University of Oklahoma (1953-56); Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois (1949-52); Teacher, Humboldt High School, St. Paul, Minnesota (1948-49); Research Analyst, Civil Intelligence Section, War Department, Tokyo, Japan (1946-47)

Collective Bargaining

• Consultant on collective bargaining legislation to New York City Board of Education, and to legislative bodies in Ohio, West Virginia, California, New York, Kansas, Delaware, and Rhode Island; to Committee of Inquiry into Negotiation Procedures, Ontario, and Ministry of Attorney General, British Columbia. Invited speaker by National Conference of State Legislatures. Expert witness on behalf of National Education Association in North Carolina and Florida.
• Chief negotiator and/or consultant for school districts in Arizona, California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Consultant on collective bargaining to National School Boards Association; Philadelphia School district; Cranston School Committee; United Federation of Teachers; Florida School Boards Association; Providence School Committee; Mt. Vernon, New York Board of Education; Pompton Lakes, New Jersey Board of Education; Colorado Association of School Executives; Mississippi Association of School Administrators; Council of Chief State School Officers, Ohio School Boards Association, etc.
• Employment Relations Consultant, American Association of School Administrators, 1974-77; responsible for consultant service on employment relations, especially collective bargaining publications, training, legislation, and research.
• Phi Delta Kappa National Institutes on Collective Bargaining:

  a. Harvard University, 1967 (Co-Director)
  b. University of California, 1967 (Director)
  c. Rhode Island College, 1965 (Director)
  d. University of Pennsylvania, 1966 (Staff member)
  e. Indiana University, 1966 (Staff member)
  f. Colorado State College, 1967 (Staff member)

• Faculty member, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education, 1978, 1986
• Director, NASE-ACSA Institute on Collective Bargaining, UC-Irvine

Special Awards

• Fulbright Award, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, to lecture on employment relations (declined to accept distinguished professorship at USC)
• Distinguished Professor, Virginia Consortium on Higher Education, 1975
• Second recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Education, University of Illinois, 1967
• Herrmann Memorial Trophy (1937) to senior most outstanding in athletics, scholarship, and extra-curricular activities
• Tennis, University of Minnesota 1939-40-41; holder of 25 junior, adult, and senior tennis championships.

Other Consulting and Field Experience (Partial List)

Alaska State Board of Education (1992); West Virginia Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Sector Employment Relations (1992); Brevard County (Florida) Community College (1992); Ohio State Department of Education (1991); William C. Norris Institute (1988-89); U.S. Secretary of Education (1987); Director, Identification and Evaluation of State Legal Constraints Upon Educational Productivity, Study funded by National Institute of Education, 1973-74; Director, Teacher Leadership Program, under grants from Ford Foundation and U.S. Office of Education (1971-73); Educational planner for Pontchartrain, a new community in New Orleans (1972); National Panel on High Schools and Adolescent Education, Department of HEW (1972); Chairman, National Conference on Education in New Communities (1971); New York State Commission on Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education (1970-71); New York City Committee on Accountability (1970-73); American City Corporation (1970-73); Committee on Professional Ethics, NEA (1970, 1966); Office of Professional Development and Welfare (1965); Rhode Island Special Commission to Study Education in Rhode Island (1967); Education Associates (New England Regional Educational Research Laboratory (1966); Governor's Conference on Education, Hawaii (1965).

School Integration Experience

• Expert witness and/or consultant to NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. in the following districts:
  
  a. 1969, twelve Mississippi school districts
  b. 1969, Morristown, New Jersey
  c. 1968, Mobile, Alabama
  d. 1968, Marvell Arkansas
  e. 1966, Altheimer, Arkansas
  f. 1965, Jefferson County, Alabama
  g. 1964, Clarksdale, Mississippi
  
• Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, 1968.
• Consultant, Board of Education, New Rochelle, New York, 1963.

Publications

Doctoral dissertation

• Axiological Aspects of Selected Theories of Intellectual Discipline, University of Illinois, February 1952.

Books (authored or co-authored)

• Handbook on School Board/Union Relations (in press 1999).
• Teachers Evaluating Teachers: Peer Review and the New Unionism (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998).
• The Teacher Unions: How the NEA and AFT Sabotage Reform and Hold Students, Parents, Teachers, and Taxpayers Hostage to Bureaucracy (New York: The Free Press, 1997).
• Teacher Bargaining: Practice and Policy (Chicago: Teach 'Em, June 1994).
• The NEA and AFT: Teacher Unions in Power and Politics (Pro>Active Publications, Rockport, MA: May, 1994).
• Public Education: An Autopsy (Harvard University Press, 1993).
• Public School Choice (Lancaster, PA: Technomic Publishing Co., 1990).
• "Peer Review and Faculty Self Government: A Dissenting View," in Waris Shere and Ronald Duhamel, eds., Academic Futures (Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1987).
• Privatization and Educational Choice (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989).
• Beyond Public Education (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986).
• NLRA Precedent in ALRB Decisions (Long Beach, CA: California State University Research Foundation, 1982).
• Public Sector Bargaining: A Policy Reappraisal (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1980).
• Bargaining: Before, During, After (Chicago: Teach 'Em, Inc., 1979)
• Readings in Collective Negotiations for Teachers (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1967)
• Collective Negotiations for Teachers (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1966).
• Social Forces Influencing American Education (Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, 1961).
• Language and Concepts in Education (Chicago: Rank McNally, 1961).
• The Future of Public Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960). Selected as one of the outstanding educational books of 1960 by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD.
• Education as a Profession (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956). Selected as one of the outstanding educational books of 1956 by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD.

Representative Articles in General Media

• "The Fruits of Labor: Taxpayer Subsidies for Teacher Unions," National Taxpayers Union Foundation: Policy Paper 118, July 9, 1999.
• "Protecting America's Public Employees: A Handbook for Union Dues Reform," American Legislative Exchange Council, 1999.
• "Agency Fees: How Fair Are 'Fair Share' Fees?," and co-author of "NEA/AFT Membership: The Critical Issues," monographs in the EPI Series on Teacher Unions, 1999.
• "Teacher Unions: One is Worse, And Two Was Bad Enough," The Weekly Standard, March 16, 1998, pp. 26-28.
• "Catholic Teacher Unions: A Non-Catholic Perspective," America, February 28, 1998.
• "Do School Boards Still Have Options?" The Erosion of Management Authority," School Business Affairs, January 1997, pp. 3-13.
• "Public Education: No Risks, No Profits," Insight on the News, November 18, 1996, pp. 28-29.
• "Symposium: Do Teachers Unions have a Positive Influence on the Educational System?" Insight on the News, October 21, 1996, pp. 24-27.
• "Teachers' Pet Party, the 'Bipartisan' NEA Sits in the Democrats' Pocket," The Weekly Standard, June 24, 1996, pp. 12-13.
• "Pseudo School Reform," The Weekly Standard, March 25, 1996, pp. 15-17.
• "Janitor for a Day," National Review, April 4, 1994, pp. 53-54.
• "The School Choice Fiasco," The Public Interest, Winter 1994.
• "Are Teachers Underpaid?" The Public Interest, Summer 1986 and "Reply to Shanker," Winter 1986.
• "Why School Reform Isn't Working," Fortune, February 17, 1986.
• "Watergate: The Bottom Line," The Alternative, December 1974.
• "NEA Referendum," The Nation, November 6, 1972.
• "The Teacher Union Movement: Will 3,500,000 Teachers Put It All Together?" Saturday Review, June 24, 1972.
• "Professors Unite!" Harper's, October 1971.
• "New Communities: Business on the Urban Frontier," Saturday Review, May 15, 1971.

Frequent contributor to professional journals including:

Phi Delta Kappan	Journal of Collective Negotiations
Education Age	Harvard Educational Review
Teachers College Record	Monthly Labor Review
School Management	Government Union Review
United Teacher	Journal of Family and Culture
Education Digest	Education Week
Executive Educator	Education Update
Childhood Education	American School Board Journal

Issue Editor

• Editor, Special Issue, "Tenure: Status and Prognosis," Phi Delta Kappan, March 1975.
• Editor, Special Issue, "Education and the Feminist Movement," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1973.
• Editor, Special Issue, "New Communities: Business on the Urban Frontier," Saturday Review, May 15, 1971.
• Co-editor, Special Issue on Collective Negotiations in Higher Education, Wisconsin Law Review, 1971.
• Editor, Special Issue on "Accountability in Education," Phi Delta Kappan, January 1967.
• Editor, Special Issue, "Big Business Discovers the Education Market," Phi Delta Kappan, January 1967.

Monographs, Special Reports

• "Teacher Unions: Is the End Near?" The Claremont Institute Briefings, No. 1994-37, December 15, 1994, pp. 1-15.
• "Merger of the NEA and AFT: Prospects and Consequences," Government Union Review, Summer, 1993, pp. 1-41.
• "Efficiency Issues in Educational Contracting," Government Union Review, Winter, 1988, pp. 1-24.
• Market Solutions to the Education Crisis, Policy Paper (Washington: Cato Institute, 1986).
• "Sex Education: Is a Moment of Truth at Hand?" Journal of Family and Culture, Winter, 1986.
• "Educational Specialty Boards: A Way Out of the Merit Pay Morass," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1985.
• "The Costs of Collective Bargaining in the Modesto City School Districts: A Case Study," Government Union Review, Winter 1981, pp. 3-34.
• "Teacher Bargaining Reconsidered," Phi Delta Kappan, February 1979.
• Identification and Evaluation of State Legal Constraints Upon Educational Productivity, Final Report, Project 3-0231, National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1975.
• "Equality of Educational Opportunity," Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 29, Summer 1959.
• "Teacher Education and the Curriculum," The Year Book of Education, 1958.
• "Teachers' Strikes: An Analysis of the Issues," Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 29, Winter 1956.
• "Employment Relations Under Performance Contracting," Paper for AERA-AASA Symposium on Performance Contracting, December 9-10, 1971.
• Occupational Education Faces the Future (NY: CUNY, 1971).

Other Data

• Officially commended by NEA and AFT for leadership in training teacher organization leaders on public policy issues.
• Board of Fellows, Public Service Research Council, 1979 - present.
• Consultant to Commissioner of Education Terrel H. Bell, 1973-75, on Education and Family Life.
• Invited lecturer, 75 colleges and universities in U.S. and Canada; speaker at conventions of major national educational organization.
• Interviewed on 25 talk shows re: Public Education: An Autopsy.
• Proposals for a national board to certify outstanding teachers in October 1985 Phi Delta Kappan are being implemented.
• Appearances on Firing Line and The Learning Channel, 1989-90;
• the Jesse Jackson Show, 1993.
• Advisory Board, Home School Research Foundation; Teachers in Private Practice.
• Lecture tour, Australia and New Zealand, under auspices of Centre for Independent Studies, November/December 1993.
• Guest speaker, 50th Anniversary, Migros Schools, Zurich, Switzerland, July 8, 1994.
• Summer school, University of Alaska-Southeast, June 20-July 1, 1994.
• Lecturer, USIA, May 5, 1994.
• Consultant on Local Only Teacher Unions, Mackinac Center, Midland, Michigan, 1997-1998.
• Director, Study of the Real Costs of Public Education, 1997-1999.

Education Policy Institute, PMB 294, 4401-A Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008-2322 202/244-7535, Fax 202/244-7584 http://www.educationpolicy.org, revised 8/10/99