Coda: Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling

Since the 1980s, but particularly under the Bush administration, certain elements of the religious right, the corporate culture, and the Republican right wing have argued that free public education represents either a massive fraud or a contemptuous failure. Far from a genuine call for reform, these attacks largely stem from an attempt to transform schools from a public investment to a private good, answerable not to the demands and values of a …