Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The push to privatize education continues apace, and like many such initiatives, the focus is first on populations unable to resist. In this case, the people of Liberia. Kishore Singh: "Such arrangements are a blatant violation of Liberia's international obligations under the right to education, and have no justification under Liberia's constitution." Audrey Watters notes, "The company in question is Bridge International Academies, which has received funding from the Gates Foundation, Learn Capital, and Mark Zuckerberg's investment company the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (among others)... Simply saying 'Critics emerge' in response? Wow."

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