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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The bait and switch of school "reform

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The bait and switch of school "reform:

The bait and switch of school "reform

David Sirota at Salon.com

Behind the new corporate agenda for education lurks the old politics of profit and self-interest
As Brill and most other education correspondents tell it, those most aggressively trying to privatize public schools and focus education around standardized tests just "happen to be" Wall Streeters -- as if that's merely a random, inconsequential coincidence. Somehow, we are to