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Comment 7
By popular request, here's a recent article on the way that the Walton Family is helping themselves to new investment opportunities by helping to convert public education into a martable, er, marketable private commodity.
Walton Family Foundation Gives $157 Million Toward Education Reform
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/walton-family-foundation-_n_886112.html
I apologize for the fact that the article reads a little bit like it was written by the Walton's PR Agency, but the comments from the readers are rather more clueful.
G'night, Jon Boy …
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Comment 8 (Reply)
John,
You are talking about things that academics and educators have been talking and writing about for a quarter century now, just since I personally started talking and writing about them.
The critical question is whether those systems will be designed and managed by people who comprehend the full depth and scope of what humane education is all about, or whether they will be controlled and marketed by cash cowpokes like Gates, Murdoch, and the Waltons.
P.S. Speaking of funky software, the new version of Patch is acting weird. I'll go ahead and post this again and see what happens.
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Comment 9 (Aside)
It looks like posting at the top level works okay, but the reply function is busted.
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Comment 10
By way of review — since we all know how important that is when it comes to learning, recall, and retention — here's a culmulative reading list on our brave new breed of “Venture Philanthropists”, to use the Broad Foundation's own name for their favorite game:
Business Insider • “Rupert Murdoch, Who Bought 90% Of An Education Software Provider, Launches Initiative ‘To Make Education A Top Issue In 2012 Presidential Campaign’”
• http://www.businessinsider.com/rupert-murdoch-news-corp-education-2012-presidential-campaign-2011-5
Daily Kos • “The United Gates Of America”
• http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/22/978218/-The-United-Gates-of-America
Jim Hightower • “Billionaires' Front Groups Attack Workers, Public Schools, and Young Voters”
• http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/2680
Mike Klonsky • Debunking Jeb Bush's ‘Florida Formula’
• http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2011/06/debunking-jeb-bushs-florida-formula.html
Michael T. Martin • “Waiting For SuperFraud”
• http://ksdcitizens.org/2010/12/22/waiting-for-superfraud/
Seattle Education Blog • “The Broad Foundation”
• http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/race-to-the-top/the-broad-foundation/
Seattle Education Blog • “Eli Broad’s Last Hurrah In Detroit?”
• http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/eli-broad’s-last-hurrah-in-detroit/
The invasion of cash from so-called “philanthropists” is known in the Biz as a “Loss Leader”. Big bucks are pumped into the system to make it look like the raid is a smashing success. If that strategy works as badly as it has elsewhere, a lot of data will get cooked and lot of Agenda-Driven Statistification (ADS) will get trumpeted all over the Corporate Air Waves to make it look like there was any improvement at all.
Never mind the small stuff, the truth won't matter. More big bucks will be pumped into rah-rah ads and corporate media “documentaries” to cover up the facts. By the time the Public figures out what is really going down, the school system will be so far down the road to privatization for corporate cash, command, and control that it will take the People all they can do to keep any shred of equal opportunity education at all.
These people are not philanthropists — “lovers of humanity” — they are investors. They don't give money away — they invest money for the sake of making more money, acting in tandem with their need to force their personal ideology on the rest of the world. If they destroy the American way of life in the process — that's just collateral damage.
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