Author and Professor Lois Weiner

spoke the other day about the need for teachers and others to rise up against the movement toward privatization of education, which is an uphill battle in my view for two reasons: One, most people have no idea about the worldwide agenda to privatize public education, and two, that Obama and Duncan are putting forward the World Bank's agenda of limiting higher education (anything beyond middle school) for the vast majority of people.

It is a truly EVIL agenda.

Substance News:

The gist of Dr. Weiner's talk centered on a World Bank report that claimed teacher unions represent the "biggest threat to global prosperity" in the world. Weiner asserted that the World Bank’s assertion was an excuse to de-professionalize teachers: “they want a revolving door because a revolving door is cheaper.” Ultimately, she stated, “the World Bank’s aim is to make schools no different from Wallmart.”


She also explained that standardized testing, as a means to gauge achievement and accountability, is now largely tied to teacher evaluation. Race to the Top, the federal initiative led by the U.S. Department of Education under former Chicago Schools CEO Arne Duncan, aims to tie test scores to teacher evaluation. Weiner insisted that the true aim is not student excellence but a way to “get rid of a salary schedule based on experience and education,” so as to not “put other money into the salary schedule.”

"Global prosperity" for whom, world banksters? For the multinationals and the few hundred billionaires in the world, that's who.