Shanker, Albert

Shanker, Albert
▪ 1998

      American union official best remembered as the leader of New York City's United Federation of Teachers in 1968 during a bitter series of strikes over decentralization that became racially and religiously divisive; later, as president of the American Federation of Teachers, he was known as a champion of high standards in education (b. Sept. 14, 1928—d. Feb. 22, 1997).

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