The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education - Softcover

Brimelow, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060096624 ISBN 13: 9780060096625

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

It is no coincidence that the thirty-year decline in U.S. K-12 education and the simultaneous surge in education spending began at the same time the modern teacher unions were created. Today, the National Education Association has nearly three million members. Its agenda is not to provide better teaching in schools; it is to provide more money and benefits for teachers -- and, above all, for itself. In this devastating critique, Peter Brimelow exposes the teacher unions for what they are: a political and economic monopoly that is choking the education system. It is time, Brimelow convincingly argues, to bust the Teacher Trust.

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About the Author:

Peter Brimelow, who has two children in public school, is the editor of VDARE.COM, a senior fellow with the Pacific Research Institute, and a columnist for CBS MarketWatch. A financial journalist, he has written extensively about the NEA and the economics of education in Forbes and Fortune. The author of Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, he has contributed to the Wall Street Journal the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060096624
• ISBN 13: 9780060096625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320