Why I won't be watching Education Nation this year
In 2010, the first year of Education Nation, NBC used the occasion to hype the propaganda film "Waiting for Superman" and told prominent critics there was "no space" for them to speak on panels (Yong Zhao) or refused to make accommodations to enable them to be included (Diane Ravitch). They invited no public school parents, and their panel on teacher quality was moderated by Steve Brill, a journalist who made a Indeed, the vast majority of panelists appeared to have been pre-selected by the Gates and Broad Foundations, Education Nation's sponsors, who have spent billions trying to subvert democracy and have successfully imposed their rigid and damaging prescriptions on the nation's urban public schools.
The worst outrage was a panel discussion entitled, "Does Education Need a Katrina?" Though the name