| Where is the Public Broadcasting System when public education is under siege? asks Diane Ravitch, referring to this story in Harper's, called "PBS Self-Destructs." Unfortunately, the article is behind a paywall, so you will either have to subscribe or run out and buy a copy. Aside from Bill Moyers, PBS has paid little attention to the astonishing, destructive, breath-taking assaults on the very principle"of public education. Nor, with the exception of an occasional piece by John Merrow, has PBS devoted air time to the outrageous attacks on the teaching profession and the very idea of collective bargaining. Now is the time for hard-hitting journalism to expose the outrageous profiteering by tech companies and the testing industry, and the capture of education by economists who think that whatever can't be measured doesn't count. |
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