The worm in the apple : how the teacher unions are destroying American education

by Peter Brimelow

Hardcover, 2003

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Available

Publication

New York : HarperCollins, c2003.

Description

"In this critique, Peter Brimelow exposes the teacher unions for what they are: a political and economic monopoly that is choking the education system, like the "trusts" that put a stranglehold on American business a hundred years ago. Until the unions are held accountable, and public schools opened up to market forces, no education reform, no matter how worthy, will succeed. It is time, Brimelow convincingly argues, to bust the Teacher Trust."--BOOK JACKET.

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LibraryThing member mrtall
This spirited takedown of American teacher's unions is well-written and convincing. Its only fault is the inherently distasteful nature of its subject matter -- as a reader sympathetic to Brimelow's stance, I never the less reached a point where I just didn't want to know much more about the
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internal workings of the NEA.
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LibraryThing member jpsnow
The problem is bigger than the initial expectation that led me to read this. Education has been slow to change, recognizing none of the efficiencies in technology or intellectual progress seen in other knowledge-oriented trades. Brimelow examines how the unyielding political weight of the
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educational union has caused these deficiencies. He also highlights the extreme mis-allocation of resources that has resulted. The U.S. has never exceeded a graduation rate of 77%. We throw more and more dollars toward this metric, dollars which might be better spent on other types of training or other endeavors.
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