The "education market is ripe for disruption" Great article in The Nation. A must read.

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1. Progressives against Common Core.

From the article:

James Shelton, the Deputy Secretary, is a longtime education investor and the former co-founder of LearnNow, a charter chain that was sold to Edison Learning, a for-profit charter management company.

In an interview with EdSurge, a trade outlet, Shelton explained that the Common Core standards will allow education companies to produce products that "can scale across many markets," overcoming the "fragmented procurement market" that has plagued investors seeking to enter the K-12 sector.

That is the Deputy Secretary of Education in the Obama administration ... something I might have expected to hear from a bureaucrat during the Bush/Cheney years.

Postmodern capitalism and its marketization and corporatization of all aspects of our lives will be the destruction of democracy and small 'r' republicanism. Common Core, charters, high stakes testing, obsessive data collection, de-professionalization of teachers, etc. -- all part of making us nothing but consumers and making citizenship meaningless.