Monday, July 3, 2017

Ravitch's Blog: Charles Pierce: “Education Is Not A Damn Marketplace!”

The following is from the blog of Diane Ravitch. If education policy is important to you then I suggest you read Ravitch's blog. It's informative as well as enlightening and will occasionally make you want to scream.


by Diane Ravitch
7/3/2017


There is one super-smart columnist writing in Esquire, and his name is Charles P. Pierce.

He gets it.

Unlike the editorial boards of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, he understands that schools don’t get “better” by competing.

He understands that what is called “reform” these days is a massive failure.

He knows that charter schools, despite the boasting, despite the hundreds of millions squandered on them, don’t get better results than public schools and usually get worse results.

He has been paying attention.

In district after district, public schools are outperforming charter schools.

Will someone tell the Walton Family?

Will someone tell Eli Broad and Reed Hastings?

Will the editorial writers wake up anytime soon?


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h/t Paula Ram

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