Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools

by Terry M. Moe

Book Overview

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Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, to the point that it is virtually impossible to get even the worst teachers out of the classroom? And why, after more than a quarter century of costly education reform, have the schools proven so resistant to change and so difficult to improve?

In this path-breaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815722729
• ISBN13: 9780815722724
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"