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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Schools Matter: Help Stop Corporate Media From Getting Even Larger

Schools Matter: Help Stop Corporate Media From Getting Even Larger

This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.