Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Jonah Edelman Reveals Corporate Education "Reform" at Work in Illinois - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Jonah Edelman Reveals Corporate Education "Reform" at Work in Illinois - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Jonah Edelman Reveals Corporate Education "Reform" at Work in Illinois

When people like Diane Ravitch talk about the billionaires taking over education policy, they are sometimes dismissed as being alarmist, or even of promoting conspiracy theories. But a recent video details exactly how this has been happening, in the state of Illinois. The video released last week of Jonah Edelman describing how he and his group, Stand For Children, managed to maneuver education "reform" legislation is still reverberating through the education blog world.

It was reported by Substance News, who several months ago reported on how Stand For Children gathered more