{"id":256250,"date":"2026-07-13T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/class-warfare-inside-the-fight-to-fix-americas-schools-steven-brill\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:38:31","slug":"class-warfare-inside-the-fight-to-fix-americas-schools-steven-brill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/class-warfare-inside-the-fight-to-fix-americas-schools-steven-brill\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Warfare Inside The Fight To Fix Americas Schools – Steven Brill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean Clements\u2019s story seems familiar. As a sophomore at the University of Oregon in 1975, she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. She was toying with majoring in anthropology, philosophy, or maybe even music. (She had been a star bassoon player growing up in Tampa, Florida.) One day, as she was shooting the breeze with some college friends, somehow a heady discussion about the differences among the species morphed into a discussion of programs designed to teach people who had different learning capacities and methods.<\/p>\n

Someone mentioned that their university had a terrific graduate program in special education. Before long, Clements had become a special education major and then enrolled in the graduate school. Her focus, as she puts it, \u201cwas on kids in regular classrooms who didn\u2019t connect the dots the way everyone else does. . . . It\u2019s not that they are not intelligent.\u201d (She could have been referring to KIPP founder Dave Levin, who\u2019d been pushed out of the private school in Manhattan for exactly that reason only to become valedictorian at the equally elite private school where he ended up.)<\/p>\n

Clements\u2019s passion, she says, \u201cwas doing something about a system that simply let these kids go, that refused to accept responsibility for helping them learn, that set low expectations and met them.\u201d Because of a romantic entanglement, Clements ended up going home to Tampa after getting her master\u2019s degree and becoming a special education teacher in the Hillsborough County school system. \u201cI figured I would do it one or two years, before doing something like law school,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI never expected to stay in education.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she did\u2014because, she says, \u201cTeaching was a blast every day I was in the classroom, and I was compelled by the challenge of teaching kids who were seen as unteachable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Praise for Class Warfare \u201cAs an inside account of the Obama administration\u2019s moves to fix schools, Class Warfare is superb. . . . Brill\u2019s access to key players\u2014the famous and the not-so-famous\u2014allows him to give readers privileged glimpses into various meetings that were seldom reported on but had great impact on the thrust of reform.\u201d \u2014The Washington Post \u201cA deeply reported work on the state of the school reform movement in the United States, written in dense bursts that give color to both policy and people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014The Daily Beast \u201cBrill\u2019s approach resembles Bob Woodward\u2019s recent volumes on the real wars of the Bush and Obama eras: plenty of inside scoops, vivid quotes, extensive reportage, evocative vignettes and telling examples, lots of short chapters, a fast-paced narrative, and an ample supply of couldn\u2019t- invent-\u2019em characters.<\/p>\n

. . . It\u2019s a rollicking romp . . . it works through many issues, conflicts, interests, episodes, and people and comes to a measured set of conclusions that won\u2019t please anyone in particular but deserve serious reflection.\u201d \u2014The Education Gadfly \u201cAn in-depth, impeccably researched examination of the education-reform movements that have swept America over the last several decades, as well as the obstacles they\u2019ve faced.<\/p>\n

. . . The author tackles this beast of a topic admirably, creating a lucid, often riveting history that will be invaluable to the next generation of reformers.\u201d \u2014Kirkus Reviews \u201cMany parents, even those who are educators, may not be aware of the battles that occur daily in the education world.<\/p>\n

This is a fascinating look at those struggles and at the people who determine how America\u2019s children will be educated. . . . Brill\u2019s multilayered account of the education dilemma . . . brings hope that change for the better could be on the horizon.\u201d \u2014Library Journal \u201cA superb book . . . Fun to read.\u201d \u2014CNNMoney.com \u201cHis writing is crisp, even breathless at times, with the zeal of a recent convert.<\/p>\n

His insider stories of the politics of education reform are fascinating.\u201d \u2014Pittsburgh Post-Gazette \u201cBrill\u2019s book is one of the most in-depth and closely researched looks into the modern workings of the education \u2018blob\u2019 in recent memory.\u201d \u2014CNN.com \u201cClass Warfare is a gripping account of the fierce combat between reformers and their opponents . . . Brill generally does a remarkable job of weaving the lives and experiences of students, teachers, and officials into a coherent story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Foreign Affairs \u201cWithin the first few pages I was taking the book everywhere\u2014the supermarket checkout line, the dinner table, the movies. It is funny, exciting, surprising and deep.\u201d \u2014Jay Mathews, The Washington Post \u201cSteven Brill\u2019s Class Warfare is hard-hitting, illuminating, and as fast-paced and gripping as a thriller.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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