Corporate driven education reform: "Cookies for Corporations, Crumbs for Children"

[yurbud]

That cookies and crumbs comment seems to sum up how Republicans and corporate Democrats deal with almost everything: the public good is at best considered a happy accident and at worst isn't considered at all.

In every place where Democrats have a choice between a corporate Democrat and a progressive, we have to do whatever we can to get the progressive in power.

Otherwise, our public schools will eventually look like shopping malls

Who Robbed the Children?
by dianeravitch

A reader comments:

"It's rather ironic and infuriating that our schools have been robbed of necessities under the catchy phrase "No Child Left Behind" and the more straight foward one, "Race to the Top" ( or push to the bottom) I have been teaching for over 30 years and have watched as the robbing and eventual exploitation of our children has become the norm. The bad old days before any of this began were so much better. In my opinion, they have segregated education once again. Now it's the haves and have nots. I read a phrase that describes it well, "Cookies for Corporations, Crumbs for Children" That's how it is and now they are trying to take away the crumbs!"

dianeravitch | February 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm | Categories: NCLB (No Child Left Behind), Race to the Top | URL: http://wp.me/p2odLa-68W

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Trickle Down Education, Bay-bee!

[yurbud]

2. unfortunately, it's a bipartisan piss storm

[jsr]

3. Very apt phrase

[yurbud]

4. that sums Washington's bipartisan consensus on a lot of issues: "First do no harm...

to our wealthy donors and past, future (and let's face it, present) employers.