It's not plagiarism or fabrications we should worry about when reading media accounts of education reform, argues Dissent writer Joanna Barkan but rather a growing web of foundation influence behind the scenes (Got Dough?). "Every day, dozens of reporters and bloggers cover the Big Three’s reform campaign, but critical in-depth investigations have been scarce." Barkan recounts how foundations are pushing out on support of media coverage in education just like they've already done on health care and
