fitting the theme of Harry Braverman's LABOR AND MONOPOLY CAPITAL, the goal of the whole movement is to convert public-school teachers from artisans or professionals to assembly-line workers or servants.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:54 PM, michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Business Week seems a lot better since Bloomberg took it over. The > magazine has done an especially good job in covering privatized > education. Here is an excellent example. > > Golden, Daniel. 2010. "Teachers' Pest." Bloomberg Businessweek (19-25 > July): pp. 58-63 > .http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_30/b4188058281758.htm > > 58: "Starting in 2000, the Gates Foundation spent hundreds of > millions of dollars on its first big project, trying to revitalize > U.S. high schools by making them smaller, only to discover that > student body size has little effect on achievement." > > 58: "It has since shifted its considerable weight behind an emerging > consensus -- shared by U.S. Education Secretary and Gates ally Arne > Duncan -- that quality of teaching affects student performance and > that increasing achievement is as simple as removing bad teachers, > identifying good ones, and rewarding them with more money. On this > theory, Gates is investing $290 million over seven years in the Tampa, > Memphis, and Pittsburgh school districts as well as a charter school > consortium in Los Angeles. The largest chunk of money, $100 million, > will go to Tampa's Hillsborough County school district, the > eighth-largest in the U.S., with 192,000 students and 15,000 teachers. > These carefully selected programs, which will favor or penalize > teachers depending on whether students make larger or smaller gains > than their test scores in prior years would have predicted, are > intended as models that, if proven successful, can be rolled out > nationwide." > > More at: > > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/bill-gates-teachers-pest/ > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
