When "Liberal" Elites Do Education Reform
This time, we hear from a guy I normally like a lot - Matt Yglesias. He's critiquing a post by Dana Goldstein, so let's start with the dead-on point she made:
Although Brill, by the end of Class Warfare, comes to recognize the limits of the education reform movement he so admires, he somehow maintains his commitment to the idea that teachers can completely overcome poverty. There’s a reason, I think, why this ideology is so attractive to many of the wealthy charter school founders and donors Brill profiles, from hedge funder Whitney Tilson to investment manager and banking heir Boykin Curry. If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then