Schools Matter:
In 2001, the PR firms that the Business Roundtable hired to sell their plan to blow up public schools and to rebuild them in the corporate image for corporate benefit could not have settled on a more cynical and appealing mantra: we must close the achievement gap, and NCLB is the way to do it.
Now over ten years later, the gaps are still gaping and growing wider as the achievement disparities map click by click onto to the diverging lines on the inequality chart between rich and poor. Who would have guessed that applying thumbscrews to the most vulnerable of the nation’s teachers and students would not have had the desired effect of ending the achievement gap? Even though it did have tremendous benefit to the corporate charter school cause.
Since 2001 the Business Roundtable has been joined by venture philanthropists, hedge funders, edupreneurs, real estate outfits, corporate foundations, and various other corporate
