News Corp. and the Business of Education (video)
- by Kristina C.
- October 15, 2011
- 11:00 pm
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Not only did Rupert Murdoch give the keynote speech at the education summit held under the aegis of Jeb Bush the past two days in San Francisco. His News Corporation is seeking to make its way into the for-profit education business, as signaled last year when Joel Klein, the former New York City school chancellor, went to head News Corp’s education division: If you needed proof that education is a business, there it is.
Approached while speaking to attendees at the education privatization conference, Klein demurred to answer questions clarifying the relationship between less-than-academic (certainly when it comes to climate change, math and history) FOX News executives and News Corp.’s new K – 12 business. Indeed,
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