Corporate Education Reform Goes to College Despite Flunking Out in the K-12 System
By Jim Miller Things haven’t been going too well for the corporate education reform forces lately. In Chicago there is great controversy surrounding and parent resistance to school closings as a result of the efforts of over zealous reformers. This shameful turn of events puts yet another black mark on former Obama Administration chief of staff and current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s heavy-handed reign of error over his city’s schools. Across the country in Seattle, teachers, students, and parents came together to resist the overuse of standardized tests by asking questions that resonated nationwide about the disservice we are doing to our children. And, in Atlanta, a massive cheating scandal raised eyebrows about the hegemony of high stakes testing as well.Add to this the rapidly unraveling reputation of the snarling diva of market-based education reform, Michelle Rhee, who appears to have covered up a cheating scandal of her own in her