Terry Moe is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. In addition, he has served as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Moe is a nationally recognized expert on American public education, and he serves on Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. In his new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools, Dr. Moe provides the first comprehensive study of America’s teachers unions, exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of their tremendous influence, the ways they use their power in collective bargaining and politics, and the tragic consequences for the nation’s public schools.