Who Can We Boycott?: Who Benefits From or Invests in Pearson and Teach for America?
Common Core’s Corporate Relations with Pearson and Teach for America (TFA)
by Michelle Maher, Ph.D.
Diane Ravitch’s new book Reign of Error outlines how hedge fund managers and investment advisors have organized a corporate takeover of public education, with dismal results. This blog points to which organizations that have invested in the Common Core/Race to the Top educational reforms. In other words, it names the organizations who have a financial stake or relationship with Pearson and Teach for America, two central aspects of the high-stakes testing and the replacement of teachers.
AT&T—donor for Teach for America
Bank of America—Corporate Partner/Sponsor/Supporter/Investor with TFA
Bertelsman (and by extension Time Warner, Sony, BMG)—Pearson Board Member’s Corporate Relationship
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—Pearson Board Member’s Corporate Relationship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona—donor for Teach for America
British Petroleum—Pearson Board Member’s