Responding to the documentary, Waiting for Superman, Rethinking School's author and education activist, Stan Karp, looks at the interests driving the conservative, so-called education reform movement.
Stan Karp taught English and Journalism in Paterson, New Jersey, for 30 years. He has written widely on school reform for Education Week, Educational Leadership, and other publications, and he is a co-editor of several books, including Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, and Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom. Stan Karp coordinates the notwaitingforsuperman.org website for Rethinking Schools. He is director of the the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey's Education Law Center.
Keep up the good work, Mr. Karp. The corporate whores in government who want nothing more than to get their greedy hands on our public assets need to be shut down. These privatization schemes are a pox on the public welfare. This issue angers me more than any other.
bapyou 10 months ago
Thank you for the enlightening talk Stan.
Buster
BROWN5354 11 months ago
Well said Mr Karp, you have totally changed my thought process on mandatory testing.
GoldenBarbarian 11 months ago
wow...more than 51 people need to watch this. i suppose it's brand new though.
this guy is just the voice i want to hear. i've just begun student teaching and i'm already becoming aggravated with these obvious changes in the public education system. i've experienced first-hand the changes that have been very clearly been imposed from curricula formulated by the private, business sector. thank you for this refreshing talk.
liberalus0 1 year ago