How Billionaires Rule US Schools
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, In The News, Managerialism, Research Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Illuminating article and video interview with Joanne Barkan of Dissent magazine about about the lack of democratic accountability, business ideology and questionable science that characterises philanthropic interference in US and increasingly, UK education.
People in the U.S., especially here in Ohio, are quite concerned about the outsized influence of big money on our schools. Then again, we have relatively few educational entrepreneurs to provide a revolutionary model.