Save Valerie Strauss from Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos, please remeber: it doesn't get any better than Valerie Strauss.
So Mr. Amazon is buying the Washington Post - gosh, I haven't been this excited since Kate named the baby...
Honestly, who cares? Newspapers are dying, and everyone knows it. Why should we give a flying fig?
Oh, yeah - that:
There's one area where Bezos has been hyper-active, but largely unknown to the general public: education reform. A look at the Bezos Family Foundation, which was founded by Jackie and Mike Bezos but is financed primarily by Jeff Bezos, reveals a fairly aggressive effort in recent years to press forward with a neoliberal education agenda:—The Bezos Foundation has donated to Education Reform Now, a nonprofit organization that funds attack advertisements against teachers' unions and other advocacy efforts to promote test-based evaluations of teachers. Education Reform Now also sponsors Democrats for Education Reform
