num_pages: 296
description: 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 a political and economic monopoly that is choking the education system. It is time, Brimelow convincingly argues, to bust the Teacher Trust.
language: English
title: The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education
titlecomplete: The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education
genres: Unfinished, Education, Politics
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Harper Paperbacks