Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The New E.U.

Alan Riding, New York Times, Jan 13, 2003

In yesterday's 'Education Life' section the New York Times took the opportunity to stake out a conservative agenda in education coverage. It is an agenda dominated by anti-unionist, anti-givernment and anti-intellectual sentiment, one in which private and elite education is favoured. To illustrate the full range of this agenda, I have selected a number of articles from the supplement.

CRLFIn this first article we get the story of Japan's 'Free Schools' - no doubt the words used in the translation were carefully chosen, as we are supposed to think from this article that Japan is embracing the charter school movement.CRLF

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