Current Where We Stand columns, as published in American Teacher, can be found below.

• October 2008 - Groundbreaking support for innovative reforms
• September 2008 - Answering the challenge
• May/June 2008 - We have a proud history—but there is much more to do.
• April 2008 - The difference one person can make
• March 2008 - Remedy for a faltering economy—vote!
• February 2008 - Taking professional unionism to a new level

Where We Stand from 1997-2007, can be found indexed by year at right.

 For twenty-seven years, the late AFT president Albert Shanker’s "Where We Stand" column in the New York Times offered an 800-word dose of straightforward common sense, reaching an audience far beyond the educational establishment. The column stands as a wonderful archive of Shanker’s far-ranging intellect, keen analytical abilities and no-nonsense ideas about how to improve schools. The complete collection offers an assortment of education and labor topics, and also spans important events and issues of the time, predicting what impact they have for us today.

Visit the online archive of Al Shanker's Where We Stand Columns from 1970-1997.