Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools

Steven Brill

Aug 2011 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

In a reporting tour de force that made national headlines and The New York Times bestseller list, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children—and points the way to reversing that failure.

In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children—and points the way to reversing that failure.

Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.

Ratings and reviews

Everything that this election is talking about. Reading the first four chapters of this book lets you excel at what you will be hearing and have heard from our incumbents. Everything from President obamas' quoting David Gardner, a University of Califoria president to information about Jon Schnur, a person that was an aide to Vice president Gore during his 2000 election year. Youw ill see the numbers of charter scholls comparablly: 95,000 of them and approximately 5,000 of them charter. You will learn that Teachers Unions comprise 3 x as much campaign donation funding towards the democratic party, which is more than most other unions. key words that may tickle your mind are : deferential, devisisve and Substantive policies.

This is just another anti-public school hit job. Brill took an extremely small sampling of bad examples and used it to categorize public school teachers and teacher unions across the country as selfish and lazy. Brill's research was lazy and sloppy, and he carved out what was useful for his perspective and ignored everything else.

About the author

Steven Brill is the founder of Journalism Online, a company designed to create a new, viable business model for journalism to flourish online. He is a feature writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and TIME. Brill founded the Yale Journalism Initiative, which recruits and trains journalists. He founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer Magazine, and Brill's Content Magazine. He is the author of After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era and The Teamsters.