Expert: Teacher bashing could lead to corporate takeover of public education
Published: Monday, February 14, 2011, 11:22 AM Updated: Monday, February 14, 2011, 11:40 AM
A culture of teacher bashing could lead to a corporate takeover of American schools and the destruction of public education, one education expert warns.
Washington Post blogger Valerie Strauss quotes former teacher Stan Karp, who now is director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Center and an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine.
Karp said he's spent years criticizing flawed public education policies, “but now I find myself spending a lot of time defending the very idea of public education against those who say, it should be blown up.”
“The increasingly polarized education policy debate is not just about whether teachers feel the sting of public criticism or whether school budgets suffer anothe
