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Friday, May 25, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member:


Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member

Murdoch (l) and Joel Klein.
No big surprise here. Adam Peshek, who staffs ALEC's Education Task Forcetold Education Week that News Corp. has been a member of both ALEC's Education Task Force and Communications and Technology Task Force since January 2012.

This according to PR Watch: 
When News Corp. acquired Wireless Generation, a for-profit online education, software, and testing corporation, for $360 million in cashin 2010, Rupert Murdoch called the for-profit K-12 education industry"a $500 billion sector in the US alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed." A few weeks