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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Not a photo op, but a real protest - The Boston Globe

Not a photo op, but a real protest - The Boston Globe

Not a photo op, but a real protest

August 4, 2011

I WENT to the Save Our Schools march in Washington last Saturday with my son, Matt Damon, and thousands of citizens who are worried about the harm corporate education reform is causing to children, teachers, and communities. The only reporting of this march in The Boston Globe was in the “Names’’ section in a trivial little item called “Damon loves teachers,’’ that made no mention of the importance of this march and its goals.

Not only did thousands of people pour into Washington to protest education policy, but the nation’s leading education thinkers were all there speaking out. I would think you would sit up and take notice when the nation’s top education leaders are out in the streets protesting the policies the government is implementing.

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the Globe has been publishing editorials that are in support of the corporate education reforms that promot