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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/26/2023
How the Reagan Administration Used "A Nation at Risk" to Push for School Privatization
by Valerie Strauss and James Harvey
One of the educators who served on the commission that developed an influential report on the state of American education argues that the report was built to serve an anti-public school ideology, and that its conclusions were a foundation for the culture war battles over schooling today.
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SOURCE: The Progressive
12/5/2022
The Culture War on Public Education
by Peter Greene
The multifront culture war beseiging schools has one unifying principle: undermining trust in public schools so they can be privatized, without regard for the best interests of children.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
5/24/2022
School Privatizers are Carrying the Culture War Banner
Moral panics are proving useful for a right-wing agenda of undermining public trust in public education; America's oligarchs are stoking them, argues a school social worker.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/30/2022
The Lesson from Republicans' Embrace of "Classical Education"
Calls for "transparency" in curriculum are working hand in hand with an agenda to divert public school funding to charter schools using a curriculum steeped in Christian nationalism. But liberals would do well to heed the connection these plans draw between education and citizenship, and parents' desire to connect them more firmly.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/13/2020
Once a Symbol of Desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ School now Reflects another Battle Engulfing Public Education
by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White
The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States.