Peter Meyer
It?s hard to tell whether Joe Nocera?s op-ed essay in the New York Times last week, ?Teaching With The Enemy,? is wonderfully nuanced or just silly. That?s surely what some education observers might wonder about the notion that Randi Weingarten, former head of New York City?s teacher union and current head of the American Federation of Teachers, should be chancellor of New York City schools.* In fact, Nocera notes that he himself ?nearly fell out of my chair? when Steven Brill told him that Weingarten, who is ?the enemy? of Brill?s new book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America?s Schools, threw him a book party.