Rick Hess Blasts Duncan’s Waiver Policy
The “War Report” Radio Show: False Promise of NCLB for Public Education
Transparency and Field Test questions
Williams and Kilfoyle: Reformers, We Will Not Let You Steal Our Children, Our Schools, Our Democracy
What Do We Call Our Side? The Resistance
Yong Zhao: The Secrets of China’s Success on PISA
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/04/six-heads-of-reformy-hydra.html
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/04/six-heads-of-reformy-hydra.html
Great post on the groups attacking public education.
A Top Ten of Duncan’s Inanity: Obama’s Basketball Buddy Drops Ball on Ed
Anthony Cody: Why Do “Reformers” Hate Democracy?
Reformers love indoctrination. They would love our children to be robots so they can have power. If they control what is taught in schools they control the future.
Anthony Cody wonders why corporate education reformers hate democracy. They love mayoral control, but only if the mayor agrees with their privatization agenda. They hate local school boards, because they are elected and can be removed.
They love private corporate control. They work to enact ALEC’s goal of removing local control from communities.
Democracy is too messy. The reformers know how to buy mayors and legislatures. Campaign contributions do the job. But the problem with democracy is that voters are unpredictable. The “reformers” can’t buy them, although the reformers can spend millions to flood the airwaves with attack ads, and they own most of the mainstream media. Think Murdoch. Think Education Nation.
Think Reed Hastings, the billionaire who owns Netflix. He let the cat out of the bag in a recent speech, which Cody quotes and links to.
Cody asks:
“Reed Hastings was right about one thing. If you go…
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