Bwah! "Education and Investment Industry Veterans Launch Education Growth Advisors"

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http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Education-and-Investment-Industry-Veterans-Launch-Education-Growth-Advisors-1333007.htm

You think these guys give a shit about kids and learning?

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - October 12, 2010) - The creation of Education Growth Advisors, a new revenue strategy consultancy firm exclusively serving the education sector, was announced today by Adam Newman and Christopher Curran, education and investment industry veterans with unparalleled knowledge, experience and relationships in the education space. Education Growth Advisors (EGA) delivers strategy and operational advisory services with an emphasis on accelerating growth, enhancing core business functions and preparing clients for capital market activity. Clients include senior executives from leading and emergent companies, organizations serving the pre-K-12 and postsecondary markets and professional and lifelong learning sectors, as well as investment firms and foundations.

"Education Growth Advisors' exclusive focus on the education sector enables us to quickly frame and assess our clients' opportunities and challenges," said Adam Newman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Education Growth Advisors. "Our model, which draws on our extensive market knowledge, channel and business development experience, robust network and strong general management capabilities, makes EGA a primary resource for executives and organizations seeking to evaluate strategic options, accelerate growth and improve business operations."

Wise up people.

[donco6]

1. So, through all the marketing mumbo-jumbo, I read:

"We train CEOs on how to take advantage of the privatization of K-12 education." No?

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3. That's how I read it.

I didn't see a thing in there about actual learning either. Looks to me like training to manage a burgeoning revenue stream.

[Hannah Bell]

6. yep. "preparing clients for capital market activity"

nothing in there about high school dropouts, either.

aren't they OUTRAGED about high school dropouts?

[Starry Messenger]

9. Not a word about high school drop-outs.

I don't see any solutions for poverty in there either. Most curious, n'est pas?

[Hannah Bell]

21. don't they *care*? shocked, i am.

[Catshrink]

2. Ah, the corporatists are busy this morning unrec'ing.

Guess the truth is too painful for those who support the Obama corporatist agenda. Did this drive for corporate profits start with NCLB and Bush's desire to enrich his brother Neil's education publishing company? You know if there's dirt, the BFEE is involved.

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4. I have another article about Mike Milken I need to post later.

Seems like right after jail, he went right into "Education". Wasn't Neil the Bush who got in trouble with the S & L scandal too?

[Catshrink]

5. Kick

I'm waiting for the privatizers to weigh in, you know, those who hate teachers unions and think giving the education over to corporations is a progressive move.

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11. A most touching silence, isn't it?

I wanted so much to hear how this is supposed to help education.

[Hannah Bell]

16. seems like they never show up in these fact-y threads. just in the ones dedicated

to slamming teachers.

[Catshrink]

18. They're acting out of unresolved issues.

You know, the teacher who peed in their Wheaties. Doesn't matter - it's the same old crowd acting like they "care about children" but in reality support the corporate takeover and profiteering promulgated by the Obama/Duncan scam. They aren't fooling anyone.

[Hannah Bell]

19. "unresolved issues" = lol.

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23. I didn't think they would

but I had to try. :D

[Hannah Bell]

24. k

[donco6]

25. They can't figure out why, when they post ed. threads, all the teachers "swarm."

Golly, can't imagine.

[Dinger]

7. K & R (nt)

[blindpig]

8. They are trying to roll back the 20th century

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20. Hell, I think they want to roll us back to the 19th century.

"The good old days"

[Fire1]

10. So, Broad has competition. n/t

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13. Competition or collaborators?

I thought it was only a "competition" when they are out to crush the public schools. ;)

[Fire1]

14. In that case, "collaborators " works just fine. n/t

[leftstreet]

12. lol 'market knowledge'

K&R

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15. Yup, yup.

I'm so glad these "experts" care so much. :sarcasm:

[Tatiana]

17. Any attempt at making K-12 education a for-profit enterprise should be opposed at all cost.

Education, like health care (in my opinion) should not be for-profit.

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22. Totally agreed!

[Luminous Animal]

26. Kick.