Worm in the Apple

<p>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. </p><p>In this devastating critique Peter Brimelow exposes the teacher unions for what they are: a political and economic monopoly that is choking the education system. It is time Brimelow convincingly argues to bust the Teacher Trust. </p>