Danny Weil on the Neo Liberal Language of Ed Reform
Danny Weil on the Daily Censored in three paragraphs sums up the edu-speak of privatizers and so-called education reformers in his post Teachers Inactivist Man vs. Achievement Gap Woman: Double speak as idiot wind.
I love Weil’s term “philanthropirates”.
Teacher’s wages, student poverty, cuts in educational funds, leaving ‘children behind’, ‘failure to close the ‘achievement gap’ and more sophistry in education all combine to frame the Sophocles tragedy we call ‘educational theatre’. As you listen to the YouTube tragic-humor found athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOmnG721qo pay close to attention to the language employed, not to mention the dialogue. To take one example, the ‘achievement gap’ and its twin, Social Darwinism, is now conveyed in a language of ‘double speak’ – the language George Orwell warned us would come about in his epoch novel 1984. Inequality is now masked by those who