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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: Save Valerie Strauss from Jeff Bezos

Jersey Jazzman: Save Valerie Strauss from Jeff Bezos:

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