"The Wall Street Journal--the voice of free market globalism--loves privatization of America's public schools, loves high-stakes testing, and loves evaluating teachers by test scores. Conversely, it despises public schools and unionized teachers. This newspaper, one of the jewels of mogul Rupert Murdoch's Empire, is consistently on the far right, hawkish and pro-corporatist. They dismiss the views of parents, as if they don't matter. As you will see, they love centralized control by the federal government so long as it is pushing their radical rightwing goals. Read what the WSJ said about federal education policy today. "President Obama made a fine choice on Friday in John King, a charter school advocate, to be his next Secretary of Education. "
At dianeravitch.net
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