Maurice R. Berube, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Eminent scholar emeritus of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Teachers Get Tenure?"
- Reasoning:
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“One of the chief reasons for the teachers’ unions in the first place was to protect teachers from outside pressure through tenure. Tenure is not easily given; it is earned.
Moreover, critics of teachers’ unions do not take into account the fact that teaching is labor-intensive and teachers often burn out.
Teachers are not the problem of American education, as some charge; they are the solution.”
“Letter to the Editor,” nytimes.com, Mar. 3, 2011
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Eminent scholar emeritus, Educational Leadership, Old Dominion University
- State Coordinator, Virginia Education Policy Fellowship Program, 2008-present
- Recipient, Outstanding Achievement Award, Friends of the Old Dominion University Libraries, 1998
- Former teacher, New York City Public Schools
- Education:
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- PhD, Union Institute and University
- MA, New York University
- BA, Fordham College at Rose Hill, 1954
- Other:
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- His son, Michael Berube, is the Paterno Family Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University
- Quoted in:
- Pro & Con Quotes: Should Teachers Get Tenure?