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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

This Week In Education Media: Steve Brill's Last Stand

This Week In Education

Media: Steve Brill's Last Stand

image from graphics8.nytimes.comThe latest NYT Magazine preview is out, and its feature story is about unions and reform and alla that (The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand). But that's not all. When you're done there, EdWeek.org has some exclusive content from the article's author, Steven Brill. (Nice job, EdWeek.org!) Brill is everywhere these days, but not so long on the education beat. Last we saw him, Steve Brill was penning the umpteenth "rubber room" story (albeit for the New Yorker). I can't help but feel like Brill is slanted to the right on all of this stuff rather than coming at it from the middle, and also that he's slumming a bit writing about schools and teachers and stuff. But he's