Institutional investors weren't willing to let a C.E.O. choose his own successor from inside the corporation; they wanted
heroic leaders,
often outsiders, and were willing to pay immense sums to get them.
In Brill's telling, the education class war pits a
heroic group of entrepreneurial philanthropists, highly successful hedge fund billionaires, and idealistic Ivy Leaguers who join Teach for America against somewhat grubby and grasping rank - and - file public school teachers and their union
leaders, who
often put their own selfish interests above those of the children.