Stephen Downes

We're seeing more school cuts in the U.S. (it is actually getting pretty ugly) and we see the new right saying that this is a good thing. And now I find myself agreeing with Kevin Carey: "Investors and shareholders are being forced to take a haircut because the greedy, incompetent companies they own drove themselves into bankruptcy. Teachers are supposed to take a haircut because--just because?" Cutting funding to education will not make it better. "In reality, the most likely consequence of massive school budget cuts--besides taking a lot of money out of the hands of middle-class workers who will respond by reducing consumption and driving us further into a Depression--is to cause everyone to hunker down in survival mode and make school reform harder."