Latest News and Comment from Education

Monday, August 15, 2011

Steven Brill’s blinkered thinking in the Wall Street Journal « Parents Across America

Steven Brill’s blinkered thinking in the Wall Street Journal « Parents Across America

Steven Brill’s blinkered thinking in the Wall Street Journal

Today’s Wall St. Journal features an article by Steven Brill, drawn from his new bookClass Warfare, in which he acknowledges the huge burn out rates of charter school teachers. He describes one “super” teacher and administrator, a 28 year old assistant principal at Harlem Success Academy named Jessica Reid, who quits, despite a large salary and quick advancement, because “This wasn’t a sustainable life, in terms of my health and my marriage.”

Brill then concludes:

“The lesson that I draw from Ms. Reid’s dropping out of the race at the Harlem Success school is that the