Ted Asregadoo speaks to English Professor Adam Bessie and Graphic Journalist Dan Carino about Bill Gates' free-market education reform movement that emphasizes a more technocratic and quantitatively rigid curriculum.
Thirty-five human beings sharing the same space met in real time and bonded around a common experience. But, that world in education is slowly slipping away.
Resistance to the global corporate education reform movement gained momentum last month as nearly 200 educators, students, and community allies from Mexico, Canada, and the US gathered in Chicago.