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Disaster Capitalism Comes to Education | Tran|Script

Disaster Capitalism Comes to Education | Tran|Script

Disaster Capitalism Comes to Education

There are only a couple of books I’ve read in the past year that have radically changed my way of thinking about things. Fresh on the heels of the co-option of the rhetoric of the open education movement by for-profit interests I read The Shock Doctrine, and it suddenly brought a bunch of things I had been struggling with into clear relief.

Here’s the basic idea — slow