How Corporate Ed Reform is Chipping Away at Democracy
An article in Dissent Magazine by Joanne Barkan in this issue of Dissent explains why the current corporate education reform movement, is not only poisoning an entire generation of children and destroying democracy, but is making lots of greedy people very rich. The irony is that those who hold the power of the purse strings are accountable to no one. However, as thousands of people gather this weekend toOccupy the Department of Education in Washington, DC, it is increasingly clear that the real threat to our national security are the private, for-profit interests who have hijacked meaningful education and the creativity and thinking skills needed to move this country into the future and to find solutions to real problems such as climate change, poverty, inequality and progress in general.
Yes, the policies of ed reformers are wreaking havoc in public education, but equally destructive is