School Beat: Of Profits and SchoolsLisa Schiffbyline‚ Dec. 15‚ 2005Major corporations are raking in money and celebrating their profit margins at the expense of our children. While we are arguing over how many small schools we can afford and demonstrating over and over again the successes of our school communities despite the major hurdles in front of us, the proverbial fox is still feasting in the hen house. This legalized inequity comes about thanks to the confluence of at least three factors: the standardized curriculum; the simplistic accountability of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation; and a culture built on extracting profit from anywhere and everywhere, which has produced a feeding frenzy on the part of major corporations tapping into the education market. |