 From flickr.com/photos/44217191@N05/5251497434/: Education is not a business - Student protests - Parliament Square, Lon (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | "Peter Greene performs a valuable dissection of Frank Bruni's uninformed defense of the U.S. Department of Education and its current occupant, who has done so much to demoralize teachers, demand high-stakes testing, and pump many millions into the privatization movement. The column wouldn't matter so much if it appeared in a grocery store tabloid, but Bruni writes for the New York Times," says Diane Ravitch.
Greene explains "Bruni has taken the Senate attempt to re-authorize the ESEA, and instead of placing that in the context of a bill that has been awaiting re-authorization by Congress since 2007 and has finally been tackled by the appropriate Senate committee for that tackling, he's creating a new narrative in which, steeped in an anti-department atmosphere, Murray and Alexander just kind of go rogue and float this bill created out of whole cloth just to spank the department... |
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