When billionaires' goals do harm
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the
Economic Policy Institute and a former education columnist at The New York Times. I often use his book,
Class and Schools, in my Sociology of Education course. In
this N.Y. Times Opinion piece, Rothstein shows how the growing influence of billionaire philanthropists over public education and school reform violates democratic control of the schools.
We should reconsider our infatuation with billionaires substituting philanthropy (and their own
