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Heading Off the Disaster Capitalism Curriculum

This interview was conducted by Doré Ripley, a lecturer at Cal State East Bay and an adjunct professor at Diablo Valley College. She specializes in intensive writing. You can visit her on the web at www.RipleyOnline.com. See her previous interview with Adam Bessie here.

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In the first two installments of the comic journalism feature at Truth-out.org,The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum, written by Adam Bessie and drawn by Dan Archer, readers learned that American education critics want to encourage G.E.R.M. (Global Education Reform Movement) as a way to privatize schools rather than better educate school children in an effort to corporatize teachers and students.

Adam Bessie, professor at Diablo Valley College, has studied the American education issue and points out that “inner city schools face serious problems, due to the effects of poverty. Disaster Capitalism Curriculum comics journalism shows that corporate style reforms - of testing, school closures, and