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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Smoking Gun: Further Evidence that Corporations are Taking Over Public Education for Fun and Profit




Smoking Gun: Further Evidence that Corporations are Taking Over Public Education for Fun and Profit

THE MASTER PLAN FOR OBAMA EDUCATION REFORMS

Here it is in one neat package: the Obama reform program, drafted by the Broad Foundation and published in April 2009.
Please review the names of those who participated in drafting the plan. Many will be familiar to you. Here you will find the agenda for Race to the Top, which was revealed to the public three months later. These are the people and these are the policies that forged a strong link between No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. Here is the framework that saddled the nation with more high-stakes testing, more privatization, more closing schools, more layoffs, attacks on tenure, and other policies that lack any research or evidence.