The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform
Monday, 20 August 2012 00:00By Dan Archer and Adam Bessie, Truthout | Graphic Journalism
This is the third and final installment of Dan Archer and Adam Bessie's "The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum."In our first two episodes of "The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum," we took readers to Washington, DC, and post-Katrina New Orleans, tracking how the spread of GERM - the Global Education Reform Movement - is transforming public education into private enterprise. Once born of neoconservative economic philosophy, GERM is now fully bipartisan, and, thus, because there is so little public debate between Democrats and Republicans, the corporate media portrays competition, testing and school choice as our only