Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch moves on public education in Indiana, N.Y.

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch moves on public education in Indiana, N.Y.

Murdoch moves on public education in Indiana, N.Y.

by Mike Klonsky

Klein

Murdoch

With former N.Y. Chancellor Joel Kleinfronting for him, Rupert Murdoch is expanding his criminal communications conglomerate into public education in the U.S.

Murdoch isn't a philanthropist in the mold of a Bill Gates or Eli Broad, but like members of the Billionaire Boys' Club – as Diane Ravitch describes them – he believes he knows the key to improving education. In Murdoch's case, it's the software produced by Wireless