9781620972007_

Strong sales track: The Man Who Discovered Quality was a bestseller in the U.S. and Japan, with nearly 30,000 copies sold in each market. Her other books sold more than 15,000 copies each.

Good review history: Gabors books have been reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and the Harvard Business Review, among others.

Media-savvy author: Gabor is a former editor at U.S. News & World Report and Businessweek. Her 2013 Newsweek feature was reposted by Diane Ravitch as The Best Article Ever About New Orleans Charter Schools. Shes written op-eds for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Huffpost, Fortune, and the LA Times.

Events in featured cities: Local education groups will anchor robust events in the cities profiled in the book: Boston, MA; New York, NY; Austin (Leander), TX, and New Orleans, LA.

Online presence: Gabor maintains an active website and a very active email list, where she blogs and posts regularly.

Credentials: Gabor is a CUNY department chair, a published business and education journalist increasingly known for her coverage of charter schools upon being awarded a Nation Institute fellowship to support her reporting on New Orleans.

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The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . After the Education Wars helps us to see a better way forward.
Cathy N. Davidson, The New York Times Book Review

After the Education Wars is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.
Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and The Death and Life of the Great American School System

A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism

In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing todays reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster andcontrary to popular beliefat odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well.

These rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots uplessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the states once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life.

A welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, After the Education Wars makes clear that whats needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.

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