Education And Public Education

Dr. Robert McChesney , Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch: Charters, Privatization, and How Obama's Race To The Top is Really a Race To The Bottom
11 Apr 2012
A Media Matters Interview by Dr. Robert McChesney Diane Ravitch, a former Clinton and Bush advisor, ex-charter school, voucher and No Child Left Behind supporter explains the evidence that changed…
High Stakes Testing in Schools: Who’s Cheating Who?
14 Sep 2011
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
Corey Booker: A Clear and Present Threat to Public Education
29 Sep 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford What media call "philanthropy" for the public schools are actually seed monies to establish a private "market" in publicly-financed education - an…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Chicago Teachers Wise Up to Obama School Privatizations
16 Jun 2010
Reformists won control of the teachers union in the town where Barack Obama became a fan of corporate schooling: Chicago.
Obama and the Charter School Sugar Daddies
02 Jun 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford As hedge funds spin their financial webs to spur charter school expansion and President Obama bullies states to lift caps on charters, "right-wing…
Obama Sec'y of Education Says Katrina "the Best Thing to Happen" to Education in New Orleans
03 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford If obscene utterances were a crime, education secretary Arne Duncan would be jailed for life. Like all disaster capitalists, he views poor people's…
Send In the Clowns: 3 Stooges, Gingrich, Sharpton & Duncan Hit the Road For Corporate “School Reform”
19 Aug 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce Dixon Quite separately from each other, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Rev. Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich have long ago forfeited whatever credibility…