Dispatches: Keeping the public in public education

This week’s Dispatches column focuses on the school reform movement — which seems to have as its aim the dismantling of public education.

Here is something that ran Tuesday on the Education Week Web site from Diane Ravitch, a former charter supporter who has come around to see the reform movement for what it is.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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