Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

There was a lot of speculation in your story about the American Federation of Teachers' current views on education reform, but little of it hit the mark ("Teachers' Unions Appear To Trade Places on Reform," Dec. 6, 1995).

For starters, the recent "sea change" in our views, described as a repudiation of innovations like school restructuring and an embrace of "traditional" schools, is a fiction. Our position on restructuring and other efforts to create the schools of tomorrow is as supportive as it was in 1992, when we adopted a convention resolution that said, "We must continue the efforts to create a different kind of learning institution to...