MisEducation Nation: CORPORATE MEDIA + CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM
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FAIR New York City Event :: September 27, 2011
Corporate Media and Corporate Education Reform
NBC is staging its second annual "Education Nation" summit at the end of September--a series of events and broadcasts bankrolled by the corporate interests and foundations aligned with the so-called "education reform" movement.
Corporate media coverage of education policy tends to hew closely to the "reform" agenda: promoting charter schools and vouchers, embracing relentless testing and other "accountability" measures, and attacking teachers' unions for standing in the way of progress.
What would a more reasonable conversation about public education look like?