Commentaries from #UOO16Philly
This weekend I was honored to be asked by the organizers of United Opt Out National to moderate and participate on two panels at their Annual Conference in Philadelphia. It also gave me the chance to get a legit Philly Cheesesteak.
I will simply post my remarks below.
Panel #1: Global Privatization and “the Advancing Endgame Result!”
It is important for us to broaden our horizons to see more clearly how education and children are impacted via other GLOBAL policies
Today’s policy makers want to turn teachers into industrial employees, churning students out like Ford workers churned out Model T’s. Frederick Taylor and his early 20th century theory of Scientific Management turned efficiency into the justification for such changes. Today’s policy makers have bought it hook, line, and sinker.
There is an international organization to foster this approach to parallel the global corporate economic movement. It is called G.E.R.M. (Global Education Reform Movement). Pasi Sahlberg, author of 2011’s Finnish Lessons, tells us:
30 years ago They already knew the next big “investment opportunity”: EDUCATION
G.E.R.M. emerged in the 1980s and has increasingly been adopted as educational reform orthodoxy throughout the world. It’s cancer has spread.
G.E.R.M. is often promoted through the interests of international development agencies and private enterprises through their interventions in national education reforms and policy formulation.
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