Terry M. Moe: What Marcus A. Winters said about 'Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools'

City Journal is a magazine about urban policy. "The Bible of the new urbanism" according to London' Daily Telegraph.
Recently, Marcus A. Winters, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who writes about education policy, reviewed my new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools. In his review, Winters said, " Moe traces the sources of the unions’ power and explains why they behave as they do. In the process, he blows apart several pervasive myths that have been used for far too long to let teachers and their unions off the hook."
He added, "The book is a must-read for anyone frustrated by the slow progress toward improving America’s public schools."
Winters wonders what will change the balance of power between teachers unions and education reform.
"It is a factor outside of education that Moe believes is the real game-changer: the rapid expansion of information technology. Moe believes, as he and John Chubb argued recently in their 2009 book, Liberating Learning, that technology has the power to weaken the unions by fundamentally changing the way that schools operate."
Click here to read all of Winters review.
Click here to learn more about Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools.