Please join us for a hard-hitting discussion of the controversial issue of teachers unions.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Nationwide, as governors and legislators seek to rein in labor costs, public-employee unions are protesting that their members are actually underpaid. But a growing body of evidence strongly suggests that their protests have no basis in fact.

Leveling of the financial playing field between wealthy and poor school districts and the creation of a nationally recognized accountability system are just the first steps in education reform.

Obama's shifting views on school vouchers won't score points with anyone other than the NEA and AFT. His strategy aims to woo the teachers unions as 2012 approaches.

Public sector unions are not the same thing as private sector unions, and should not be able to collectively bargain.

Education leaders often act lazily, blaming union contracts and federal regulation rather than confronting the problems they have the capacity to solve.