The Gates Foundation Education Reform Hype Machine and Bizarre Inequality Theory
Sunday, 24 August 2014 00:00By Adam Bessie and Dan Carino, Truthout | Graphic Journalism
For a more immersive experience, readers will find documentation and links to further reading embedded within in the images.
Special thanks for the scholarship and insight from: Diane Ravitch (Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools); Anthony Cody (The Educator and The Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation, forthcoming); Paul Thomas (Social Context Reform: A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity); Mercedes Schneider (A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education); Joanne Barkan (See her must read investigative series in Dissent Magazine).
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This comic accompanies a two-year long Truthout supported series illustrating the education reform debate from an alternative perspective, both ideologically and visually. For previous graphic essays on education by Adam Bessie, see alsoThe Gates Foundation Education Reform Hype Machine and Bizarre Inequality Theory: