Now Rupert Murdoch Wants to Change the Way Our Kids Learn (and Goldman Sachs, too)

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http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/freshman-education-industry-murdoch-earns-pluses-and-minuses-28449


Just seven months after his surprising expansion into reading, writing and arithmetic with the $360-million acquisition of Wireless Generation, News Corp.'s chairman and CEO seems intent on making the grade in what could be the future of education -- economized, customized, data-driven digitized instruction.

Potentially at stake: hundreds of billions of dollars. Kindergarten-through-12th grade “is waiting desperately to be transformed by big breakthroughs that extend the reach of great teaching,” Murdoch said at the time.

Investors’ growing interest in education is another indication of the dawning era. Vander Ark, who was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s first executive director for education, launched the first fund dedicated to education three years ago. Now, he told TheWrap, private equity dealmakers and venture capitalists are pouring into the field.

This week, for example, the first ever Goldman Sachs-Stanford University Global Education Conference is convening worldwide education leaders. The purpose, says the invitation: “to discuss how innovation, globalization, regulation and technology are impacting education, and how the public and private sectors can work together … Education appears to be at a fundamental inflection point.”





and here is the New York School District NO BID contract story with Murdoch:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/14/268598/news-corp-911-contract/

[fascisthunter]

1. disgusting... shoving propaganda down children's throats

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2. Pete Peterson has been busy preparing the curriculum

Raising young deficit hawks


http://www.remappingdebate.org/print?content=node%2F400


February 3, 2011 — No one has done more than the billionaire private-equity investor Peter G. Peterson to stir America’s anxiety over deficits, debt, and what Peterson (among others) considers out-of-control entitlement-program spending. Those same concerns now lie at the heart of a “fiscal responsibility” curriculum being developed for America’s high schools. The curriculum bears the stamp of Columbia University’s prestigious Teachers College, but reflects the focus suggested by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which provided $2.4 million in funding for the project.

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3. Virtual classrooms will depersonalize the learning experience.

But who cares, there's MONEY to be made!!! Teachers to be fired!!! Makes me sick.

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4. And the money will be coming out of our pockets

and into theirs...using the Shock Doctrine approach.

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5. Also, they are giggling with excitement as to how it will hurt the teachers unions

http://www.advancingafreesociety.org/2011/07/18/the-internet-will-reduce-teachers-union-power/

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6. Murdoch's WSJ helping to advance his 'cause'

Get rid of unions so the billionaire boys can take over.


Thanks for the link...that was interesting.

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7. Vile.