Added 9/10/18. Milt in this 2011 episode delves into education reform with top-tier veteran journalist Steven Brill, who had just authored, “Class Warfare: Inside The Fight To Fix America’s Schools.” They discuss how Brill developed the book and what he learned along the way. It’s an insider account including a close look at the personal dynamics among influencers – both in the front lines and the background – in key locales including the White House, and the New York City and Washington, D.C. mayor’s offices. President Barack Obama and city and state officials staked political capital on bold and controversial education reform initiatives including a major emphasis on charter schools. As Brill tells Milt, the book flowered after he wrote a New Yorker piece on that city’s “rubber rooms,” where abusive or incompetent teachers who could not be fired due to union contracts, were relegated each work day while still collecting their salaries.