The Global Assault on Teaching Teachers and their Unions or Accounting Best Practices

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance

Author: Mary Compton

Increasingly public education’s character is under assault. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher union leaders from around the world fuses personal stories, research, and political analysis, explaining why such profound and damaging changes are being made to schools and teaching, and how teachers, their unions, and supporters of public education can make real the goal of quality education for all the world’s children.

Table of Contents:

Neo-Liberalism, Teachers, and Teaching: Understanding the Assault: Introduction--Mary Compton and Lois Weiner; ‘Remaking the World’: Neo-Liberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teacher's Labor--Susan Robertson
* Neo-Liberalism’s Global Footprint: Education Reform under Strangulation--John Nyambe; Teaching for the Factory: Neo-Liberalism in Mexican Education--Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, and Cesar Silva; Neo-Liberal Education in Denmark--Jette Steensen; University of the West Indies and GATS--Margueritte Williams; The Education World is Not Flat: Neo-Liberalism’s Global Project and Teacher Unions’ Transnational Resistance--Larry Kuehn
* The Need for Unions to Defend Public Education: Teachers and their Unions: Why Social Class 'Counts,'--Kathleen A. Murphey; Campaign Against the Opening of City Academies in England--Ian Murch; An Inner-City Public School Teacher’s Story from China, by Yihuai Cai; What Teachers Want from their Unions: What We Know from Research--Nina Bascia; Challenging Neo-Liberalism: Education Unions in Australia--Rob Durbridge * Teaching, a Profession under Attack: Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform: Reflections Upon the Role of Teachers in Recent Educational Reforms in the U.S. and Namibia--Ken Zeichner; Universalization of Elementary Education in India: A Dream Deferred is a Dream Denied--Basanti Chakraoborty; Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers--Álvaro Moreira Hypolito
* Neo-Liberalism, Inequality, and Teacher Unions: Sodexho in the Chicago PublicSchools--Kyle Westbrook; Homophobia in St. Lucian Schools: A Perspective from a Select Group of Teachers--Urban Dolor; Work on Aboriginal Education in a Social Justice Union: Reflections from the Inside--Chris Stewart; South African Teachers and Social Movements: Old and New--Shermain Mannah and Jon Lewis; Schooling and Class in Germany: An Interview with Eberhardt Brand and Susanne Gondermann, of the Gewerkschaft fuer Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW); Education or Mind Infection?--Nurit Peled-Elhanan
* Going  on the Offensive: Interview with Thulas Nxesi, President of the Education International; The Context of Teachers’ Democratic Movements in Mexico--Rodolfo Rincones; In Mexico, to Defend Education as a Social Right, We Must Fight for Union Democracy--María de la Luz Arriaga Lemus; A History of the Search for Teacher Unity in South Africa--Harold Samuel; British Teacher Unions and the Blair Government–Anatomy of an Abusive Relationship--Mary Compton; Building the International Movement We Need: Why a Consistent Defense of Democracy is Essential--Lois Weiner

Neo-Liberalism, Teachers, and Teaching: Understanding the Assault: Introduction--Mary Compton and Lois Weiner; ‘Remaking the World’: Neo-Liberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teacher's Labor--Susan Robertson
* Neo-Liberalism’s Global Footprint: Education Reform under Strangulation--John Nyambe; Teaching for the Factory: Neo-Liberalism in Mexican Education--Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, and Cesar Silva; Neo-Liberal Education in Denmark--Jetta Steensen; University of the West Indies and GATS--Margueritte Williams; The Education World is Not Flat: Neo-Liberalism’s Global Project and Teacher Unions’ Transnational Resistance--Larry Kuehn
* The Need for Unions to Defend Public Education: Teachers and their Unions: Why Social Class 'Counts,'--Kathleen A. Murphey; Campaign Against the Opening of City Academies in England--Ian Murch; An Inner-City Public School Teacher’s Story from China, by Yihuai Cai; What Teachers Want from their Unions: What We Know from Research--Nina Bascia; Challenging Neo-Liberalism: Education Unions in Australia--Rob Durbridge * Teaching, a Profession under Attack: Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform: Reflections Upon the Role of Teachers in Recent Educational Reforms in the U.S. and Namibia--Ken Zeichner; Universalization of Elementary Education in India: A Dream Deferred is a Dream Denied--Basanti Chakraoborty; Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers--Álvaro Moreira Hypolito
* Neo-Liberalism, Inequality, and Teacher Unions: Sodexho in the Chicago Public Schools--Kyle Westbrook; Homophobia in St. Lucian Schools: A Perspective from a Select Group of Teachers--Urban Dolor; Work on Aboriginal Education in a Social Justice Union: Reflections from the Inside--Chris Stewart; South African Teachers and Social Movements: Old and New--Shermain Mannah and Jon Lewis; Schooling and Class in Germany: An Interview with Eberhardt Brand and Susanne Gondermann, of the Gewerkschaft fuer Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW); Education or Mind Infection?--Nurit Peled-Elhanan
* Going  on the Offensive: Interview with Thulas Nxesi, President of the Education International; The Context of Teachers’ Democratic Movements in Mexico--Rodolfo Rincones; In Mexico, to Defend Education as a Social Right, We Must Fight for Union Democracy--María de la Luz Arriaga Lemus; A History of the Search for Teacher Unity in South Africa--Harold Samuel; British Teacher Unions and the Blair Government–Anatomy of an Abusive Relationship--Mary Compton; Building the International Movement We Need: Why a Consistent Defense of Democracy is Essential--Lois Weiner

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Accounting Best Practices

Author: Steven M Bragg

New best practices for the evolving business

Everyone knows that adopting accounting best practices can improve efficiency and reduce error rates in the accounting department, but less obvious are the benefits gained from better reporting of information to other parts of the company. More accurate data reported faster can play an integral role in both short- and long-term strategic planning. Accounting guru Steven Bragg explains how to leverage this and other opportunities in his authoritative Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition.

Bragg adds over sixty new best practices to his benchmark resource, concentrating primarily on the areas of:

• Internal auditing

• Accounts payable

• Finance

• Payroll

Bragg highlights the dos and don'ts of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. Accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants will find Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition to be a peerless resource.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	How to use best practices	4
Ch. 3	Accounts payable best practices	17
Ch. 4	Billing best practices	64
Ch. 5	Budgeting best practices	83
Ch. 6	Cash management best practices	106
Ch. 7	Credit and collections best practices	122
Ch. 8	Commissions best practices	157
Ch. 9	Costing best practices	170
Ch. 10	Filing best practices	189
Ch. 11	Finance best practices	210
Ch. 12	Financial statements best practices	228
Ch. 13	General best practices	256
Ch. 14	General ledger best practices	293
Ch. 15	Internal auditing best practices	310
Ch. 16	Inventory best practices	327
Ch. 17	Payroll best practices	370
Ch. 18	Policies in support of best practices	400