NYT: Ravitch is anti-free-market? Nonsense.
Diane Ravitch’s new book, Reign of Error, has even the New York Times alluding to her crusade against the corporate education reform powers as “anti-free-market-based.” The writer, Motoko Rich, is superb in her guilt-by-association and repetition-of-corporate-press-releases as a form of balanced journalism. The simple and well performed propaganda techniques she uses slant the readers’ perceptions – unless we possess the critical reading/thinking skills that corporate education reform eschews in favor of lower level skills and high stakes testing that is easily collected as data – data to be spun later to forward corporate agendas.
“About two or three years ago people were feeling, ‘Oh, my God, these people are taking over and there’s nothing we can do,’” said Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, referring to those who advocate for free-market-based overhaul of schools. “Diane has continued to push that envelope and give people such hope.”
Let’s examine the slant/propaganda:
Karen Lewis, union thug. “Bo-o-o-o-o!”
Corporate education reformers use free-market-based cure for schools. “Hooray!”
Karen Lewis, Diane Ravitch, and all those who oppose innovation. “Bo-o-o-o-o!”
Karen Lewis, union thug. “Bo-o-o-o-o!”
Corporate education reformers use free-market-based cure for schools. “Hooray!”
Karen Lewis, Diane Ravitch, and all those who oppose innovation. “Bo-o-o-o-o!”
Nonsense. Smoke and mirrors. Blather. Why? All corporate media is subject to corporate
