Excerpted from the opening remarks: Teachers unions today are in a very unique position from the way unions are normally organized, which is that they're not just looking out for your members. In this case, what's really driving the whole system [is] the issue of attainment of the constituents, if you will. That may seem like a widely disparate objective, but if you really think about it, and again, it was mentioned, Detroit's a good example, that in the private sector, there is an integration of those two constituencies in the sense that the institutions need to survive — so usually, the moderator in the negotiations between unions and management, or whatever, is the success, ultimately, at the end of the day, of the institution . . . [that] needs to succeed. Otherwise, everyone is out of business. I think, in some senses, there's a little bit of that — more than a little bit right now — happening in education.