Photo of the arrogant face of privatization: James Merisotis, president of the Lumina Foundation
Take a look at how the philanthropists like Lumina and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others, smuggle themselves, stealth like, into every nook and cranny of civil society.
Photo of the public face of privatization: Eloy Ortiz Oakley, President of Long Beach City College
Research recently revealed that Lumina, community college president, Superintendent-President of Long Beach City College Eloy Ortiz Oakley and the LA Chamber of Commerce had a “meet-up” to discuss the
“The College Graduation Crisis”; but don’t be fooled, for these forces of educational privatization have no interest in students, wish to assure no critical thinking is taught, nor do they give a damn if students graduate college or if they ever become successful in their fields, life or work — their interest is in Wall Street and
for Wall Street. Even if every young person graduated college there would be no jobs for them as the US work force is either shipped off-shore or, more importantly, as work disappears due to cybernetics (
http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2013/03/08/disposable-people-and-new-technology/).
And of course with the ‘Massive Open Online Classes’ (Mooc’s) that