I Like This Column by Valerie Strauss

about the "Diane Ravitch Myth." Everybody should read this piece.

She is revered by teachers because she knows what she is talking about and is willing to admit when she is wrong about policy. She is reviled by the asshole reformers because of those very reasons.

Public education is a civic institution designed for the public good. It is NOT a business and CANNOT be run on business models. That is why the "reforms" will fail, but I think it has gotten to the point where the privatizers frankly don't give a shit if their ideas are unworkable. The whole point of their reforms to destroy upward mobility for the vast majority, to make Americans work for the same pittance as those in Vietnam and in China. Of course, these morons don't understand that people who work for little cannot buy what these assholes are selling, but don't you dare tell them that they are stupid.