Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's SchoolsIn 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. |
Contents
The Race | 1 |
The Epiphanies | 19 |
If an Unfriendly Foreign Power Had Attempted | 42 |
A Governor and a President Take Center Stage | 58 |
Schoolyard Classroom | 72 |
Dont Worry Its Just a Parent | 86 |
The Idea Wasnt Just to Keep Them | 109 |
Our Party Has Got to Wake Up on This | 131 |
Agreement | 252 |
Outcomes Not Achievement | 265 |
The Feinberg Gambit | 278 |
Firing Everyone | 287 |
Going Over to the Other Side | 302 |
Varnish on a Sinking | 313 |
Back on the Horse | 321 |
Rhees Breakthrough | 331 |
Foxes in the Henhouse | 147 |
Building Harlem Success | 161 |
Pulling the Rug Out | 176 |
Faceless Bureaucracy | 190 |
The New Democrats | 206 |
Wake Up Obama Just Talked About You | 216 |
What Do You Guys Think You Could Do with | 227 |
Theyll Do Backflips | 236 |
Cant Change from This | 245 |
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