Judith Warner: Why Are The Rich So Interested in Public School Reform? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com:
EDUCATIONWhy Are the Rich So Interested in Public-School Reform?
They want to remake America's students in their own high-achieving image, but they're overlooking socioeconomics
Warner's latest book is We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication.
It was perhaps inevitable that the political moment that has given birth to the Occupy movement, pitting Main Street against Wall Street and the 99% against the financial elite, would eventually succeed in making some chinks in the armor of the 1%’s favorite feel-good hobby: the school reform movement.
It’s been a good decade now that the direction of school reform has been greatly influenced by a number of highly effective Master (and Mistress) of the Universe types: men and women like Princeton grad Wendy Kopp, the founder of the Teach for America program, her husband, Harvard graduate Richard Barth, who heads up the charter school Knowledge Is Power Program, the
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