Lewis Lapham delivers in-depth examination of what corporate driven education reform is
Lewis Lapham, editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper’s Magazine, contributes his unique in-depth perspective to what our schools have become, the actual status quo, from over a decade of corporate owned and operated education reform. As we consider our children as children with their own unique sets of strengths and weaknesses, Lapham describes the corporate approach to education. He calls corporate education reform “Playing with Fire.”
Lapham’s lengthy and insightful article is a must read for every parent, teacher and intelligent human being who is struggling with the media advertised viewpoint of so-called education reform versus what our children, for the first time in history, suffer through daily. No generation of Americans has ever been subjected to the high stakes testing, the scapegoating and demonization of good teachers, the monetizing of children, the distortion of educational goals, and the perverse private profit driven fanaticism that evaluates and fires accredited teachers on the basis of the test scores of children they never had in class in classes they had never taught.
Children being treated as guinea pigs to be trained for private profit is the reality of today.
Why? Let Lewis Lapham explain.
“The tide of mediocrity flows into the classroom from the ocean that is the society at large, and if many of our public schools resemble penal institutions, the students herded into overcrowded classrooms where they major in the art of boredom and the science of diminished Lewis Lapham delivers in-depth examination of what corporate driven education reform is | Reclaim Reform: