Chicago Teachers’ Federation
American organization
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- In teaching: The professionalization of teaching
The Chicago Teachers’ Federation, founded in 1897, for example, comprised a group of female primary-school teachers who were faced with an experimental pension system that was actuarially unsound and with salaries that were very low. Margaret Haley, a dynamic 36-year-old Irish woman, was their leader, and…
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