How Much Does Great Teaching Really Matter?

Steven Brill's book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, has poured fresh fuel on the education reform debate. In this provocative segment, Steven speaks with a panel of his peers and offers a spirited defense of some of the most provocative ideas in the book. Listen in as we go beyond the talking points on Class Warfare. Steven Brill is the author of Class Warfare:Inside The Fight to Fix America's Schools. Valerie Strauss is an education writer at the Washington Post. Stephanie Banchero is a national education reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, and author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy. Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and pens the Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up."