"Race to Serve the Oligarchs" not going entirely as planned

Arne Duncan's federalized system of bribes called Race to the Top has all sorts of incentives for state education departments. It has incentives to develop constant data surveillance systems for both students and teachers, with tests to decide who gets to graduate, who gets rehired, who gets to move to the next grade, and which schools get needed cash.

There are incentives, too, for the creation of unlimited numbers of the segregated corporate charter school test camps based on the Wall Street Model of Public Oversight, i. e. NONE.

And, indeed, there are incentives for states and localities to dump their curriculum and standards into the trash in favor of a single nationalized curriculum and testing system based on the deep thinking of the MBAs, economists, and lawyers hired by the Business Roundtable to oversee the project.

Having entered and lost the first round of this Race to Serve the Oligarchs, many states and localities are balking at the thought of entering Round 2 of Judgment by the Plutocrats. By now all the states have figured out what Arne and Bill and Eli want--

--Meanwhile, the President, now running neck and neck in the polls with *Ron Paul,* tells us that he needs our help to save the Dems from a crushing defeat this coming November. Well, we need something from the President: we need him to stop treating us like idiots and to do something about education that would distinguish his approach from the past generations of failed reforms that preceded him and that are now being repackaged for, yet, another generation of failure.

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/04/president-asks-for-our-help-we-ask.html

They will raise a generation that resents them. And it wont be gauged by test scores in schools, but how the students feel years after leaving school.

for the lower classes & the middle classes holding on by their fingernails while they struggle to pay tuitions to better schools on their declining wages.

While the corporate profits on education franchises, partly funded from the public purse, keep rolling in, & small stand-alone charters are squeezed out by corporate franchises according to the logic of capital.