Schools Matter: Corporate Deforming of Education at Heart of Resistance by Teachers

Schools Matter: Corporate Deforming of Education at Heart of Resistance by Teachers:

Corporate Deforming of Education at Heart of Resistance by Teachers

by Jim Horn

HT to Stan Karp:

Today’s Washington Post Answer Sheet column includes the latest in a series of posts and exchanges about the Broad Foundation’s education “reform” efforts in NJ and across the nation. As Post reporter Valerie Strauss writes: “The Chicago teachers strike has made school reform national news, and here’s a piece that helps explain some of the controversy. This is a follow-up to a post I published last month about plans by the California-based foundation of billionaire Eli Broad to expand its influence in school reform initiatives that include charter schools, merit pay and other market-based reforms. The original piece and the following one were written by Ken Libby, a doctoral student at