What Are Appropriate Roles for Companies in Education Reform? By Deborah Meier

What Are Appropriate Roles for Companies in Education Reform?

By Deborah Meier on May 8, 2015 
Ed Week
 

Today Deborah Meier and Joe Nathan discuss the role of corporations in improving schools. Deborah Meier begins, followed by a response from Joe.

Deborah Meier writes:

Dear Joe,

I always hesitate to turn any help down. One of the best grants we ever got at CPE was from EXXON for a longitudinal study of our grads in the 1980s. I've never been able to get another for this purpose.  

For me it's about power. Who has power over who?

There was a time when corporate giving to schools was truly "charity" in the best sense.  Plus a little good will of the PR sort. Today the money kind of power (vs the people kind) ) is running too many things, setting the agenda with a grand political purpose: to demonstrate that education would work better, as would a lot of other public institutions, if they followed a free marketplace business model.

I think this ideology is putting democracy at further risk as an idea and a reality.  

Buyer beware.

Deb

 

Joe responds:

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