Myron Lieberman is an education policy scholar and critic of teachers' unions and public school bureaucracies. He authored several books on education reform, including "The Teacher Unions" and "Public Education: An Autopsy." His contributions to The Weekly Standard focused on critiquing teacher unions and what he viewed as inadequate school reform efforts.
I've been reading books about education since 1948 -- book after book after book, in what seems now, fifty years on, to have been a never-ending stream. But I still have no hesitation in saying that Andrew J. Coulson's new study, Market Education: The Unknown History, is the most challenging book…
The merger of the nation's two giant teacher unions is very likely to be approved at their national conventions in New Orleans this July. The combined entity, as yet unnamed, will be the largest union in the AFL-CIO and a powerful political player.
ON MARCH 25-27, MOST OF THE governors, along with a business leader designated by each, will convene in an education summit co-sponsored by the National Governors "Association at the IBM facility in Palisades, New York. The co-hosts are Louis Gerstner, chairman and chief executive offcer of IBM,…