"Our schools are being starved into failure in order to justify mass privatization Timothy Meegan Chicago Sun-Times

Naomi Klein*: "In one of his most influential essays, Friedman articulated contemporary capitalism's core tactical nostrum, what I have come to understand as 'the shock doctrine'. He observed that 'only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change'. When that crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. Some people stockpile canned goods and water in preparation for major disasters; Friedmanites stockpile free-market ideas. And once a crisis has struck, the University of Chicago professor was convinced that it was crucial to act swiftly, to impose rapid and irreversible change before the crisis-racked society slipped back into the 'tyranny of the status quo'. A variation on Machiavelli's advice that 'injuries' should be inflicted 'all at once', this is one of Friedman's most lasting legacies."

Tim Meegan, "The Shock Doctrine, Our Schools & Our Children", Reclaim Reform, Aug. 2014
http://reclaimreform.com/…/tim-meegan-the-shock-doctrine-o…/

David Sirota, "The 'Shock Doctrine' Comes to Your Neighborhood Classroom", Salon, Sept. 2011
http://www.salon.com/2011/09/06/shockreform/

Lance Fialkoff, "Shock Doctrine USA: The Urban School Privatization Script", Reclaim Reform, Aug. 2013
http://reclaimreform.com/…/shock-doctrine-usa-the-urban-sc…/

Adam Sanchez, "The Education 'Shock Doctrine'", International Socialist Review, Sept. 2011
http://isreview.org/issue/71/education-shock-doctrine

*Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (2007) [excerpt from the introduction]
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/excerpt