Sunday, September 25, 2011

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: MisEducation Nation: CORPORATE MEDIA + CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: MisEducation Nation: CORPORATE MEDIA + CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM:

MisEducation Nation: CORPORATE MEDIA + CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM

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FAIR New York City Event :: September 27, 2011

Corporate Media and Corporate Education Reform

NBC is staging its second annual "Education Nation" summit at the end of September--a series of events and broadcasts bankrolled by the corporate interests and foundations aligned with the so-called "education reform" movement.

Corporate media coverage of education policy tends to hew closely to the "reform" agenda: promoting charter schools and vouchers, embracing relentless testing and other "accountability" measures, and attacking teachers' unions for standing in the way of progress.

What would a more reasonable conversation about public education look like?