Education Inc. Trailer from brian malone on Vimeo.
Note one salient line from Diane Ravitch: "The Right wing and the Obama administration are working hand-in-glove, and that is bizarre." Maybe not if we come to see we have a one-party government when it comes to education reform, but, historically speaking based on Republican respect of local control and Democrats' progressive nature regarding equity and civil rights, yes, that sort of bi-partisanship (which we noted even in the 2012 elections) regarding corporate influence in American education is odd and cause for alarm indeed.
AND eager for your help. Have a story of power, manipulation, self-interest or injustice which needs attention? Let me know and we'll let the world discover "what's that smell."
"If you're a profession of sheep, then you'll be run by wolves." -- David C. Berliner
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: Everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- Paulo Freire
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