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Center for Media and Democracy’s Report Shows Federal Government Has Spent Over $3 Billion Fueling Charter Schools but No One Knows Where the Money Went
By Elaine Magliaro The Center for Media and Democracy’s (CMD) PR Watch reported last week on the $3.3 billion that the federal government has spent fueling the charter school industry in this country over the past two decades. According to a new … Continue reading
Profitship! Cashing In On Public Schools…with a Mark Fiore Video
Posted by Elaine Magliaro As a former public school educator, I have been extremely concerned about the efforts to privatize public schools in this country, the mania for standardized testing, the demands for more and more charter schools, and the claim … Continue reading
Should the High Teacher Turnover Rate in Charter Schools Be a Cause for Concern?
By Elaine Magliaro (NOTE: This article was originally posted at Res Ipsa Loquitor on September 7, 2013) In a recent New York Times article titled At Charter Schools, Short Careers by Choice, Mitoko Rich wrote of how charter schools seem … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Propaganda, Society, United States
Tagged Charter Schools, Education, Education Reform, Teach for America
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Former New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert on How Millionaire and Billionaire School Reformers Are Ruining Public Education in the United States
By Elaine Magliaro Last week, I wrote a post about Bob Herbert and his new book titled Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America. Herbert, who was a columnist for the New York Times for eighteen years, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, United States, Wall Street
Tagged Bill Gates, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Hedge Fund Managers, Public Schools, School Reform
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A Look at Some of the Driving Forces behind the School Reform Movement and the Effort to Privatize Public Education
By Elaine Magliaro NOTE: I originally posted this article at Res Ipsa Loquitor on March 3, 2013. Having worked as a public school teacher for well over three decades, I became concerned about the “school reform” movement—which brought us the … Continue reading
Public Schools for Sale?: Diane Ravitch Talks with Bill Moyers about the Privatization of Public Education
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro NOTE: I originally posted this article at Res Ipsa Loquitor on June 8, 2014. I think it bears re-posting at Flowers for Socrates. Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University, a historian … Continue reading
Charter Schools and The Profit Motive
By Elaine Magliaro NOTE: I originally posted this article about charter schools and their backers at Res Ipsa Loquitor on March 16, 2013. I think it bears re-posting at Flowers for Socrates. In a 2010 New York Times article titled … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Education Policy, United States, Wall Street
Tagged Charter Schools, Hedge Fund Managers
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