Three Perspectives The Annenberg Institute has gathered texts from three of the key presenters at the Collective Bargaining conference (December 2006) into one volume that offers their distinct perspectives on the issues in collective bargaining. Download complete report [PDF: 60 pages, 8 MB] Opening Presentation: by Andrew J. Rotherham Co-Director, Education Sector Interviews with panel discussion leaders: Alan Bersin Former California Secretary of Education Randi Weingarten President, United Federation of Teachers, New York City (prepared by Collaborative Communications Group) Andrew Rotherham emphasizes that the current misalignment between educational goals and the systems embodied in contracts is not caused by those contracts but simply reflected in them; and he offers recommendations for building contracts that best position educators and schools to meet the common goal of serving the nation's public school students well. Alan Bersin discusses the provisions of California Senate Bill 1133, supported by the California Teachers Association, which allows a separate negotiating zone for low-performing schools, and summarizes his vision for new compensation structures for teachers. Randi Weingarten calls for an end to the debate of whether unions will or should exist and focuses, instead, on what it would take to create a climate of collaboration in which the collective bargaining process can be used to move from individual to collective responsibility.