Sentences with phrase «thorniest policy conversations»

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.