Worm in the Apple How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education

Name: Worm in the Apple How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education
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ISBN: 9780060096625

ISBN-10: 0060096624

ISBN-13: 9780060096625

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Authors: Peter Brimelow

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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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List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

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.



Preface: Introducing the NEA and Some Other Things



The NEA, Representatively Assembled



Something Is Rotten in the American Education Apple



What the Worm Says About the American Education Apple



The National Extortion Association



No Bargain



The Inmates Take Over the Asylum



The Workers' Paradise



Kryptonite



Going to Extremes



Gaijin



The Same Old New Unionism



The NEA Is Worried



What Is to Be Done? A Twenty-four-Point Wish List


Epilogue: The (Possible) Shape of Things to Come (Aaargh!)



The States at a Glance



The Good Guys (and Some Others)


Notes


Index