Comments on: Doug Martin’s Abecedary of Indiana’s Corporate Education Pirates

By: Boycotting the Indiana Press's Corporate School Reform Agenda

Boycotting the Indiana Press's Corporate School Reform Agenda — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:28:21 +0000

[...] and people are out to destroy the public schools in Indiana, please see the list I have posted here. You will find a good majority of them appearing in the pages of our newspapers, in one form or [...]

By: Doug Martin

Doug Martin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:46:56 +0000

Hi Tammy. Yes, you are right. The point of their innocent names is to deceive the public. Some like Stand for Children started out well, but were soon co-opted by rich people. Most of these, though, have had privatization of schools on their mind from the get-go. The current manifestation goes back to the late 1980s and the Business Roundtable, and even earlier under Reagan’s “Nation at Risk” report, which was an attempt to start scaring the public into believing the schools were failing.

By: Tammy Scrivner

Tammy Scrivner — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:22:00 +0000

Many of these organizations have names that sound like they are really trying to help education. 1. Do you think they start out that way or are they started purely to profit? 2. It is very easy to see why the general public might be swayed just by their names.