Monday, June 18, 2012

On philanthropy (or not)

Excellent article in The Awl regarding the billionaire philanthropists, their perspective:
that business is good at measuring and achieving set results and goals, while government mysteriously lacks such abilities; that business is pragmatic, efficient and uninterested in ideological point-scoring; that every institution would benefit from being "run like a business"
..and their influence on everything including (part VI) education:
 ...the funders of education reform seek nothing less than the wholesale retooling of public schools, at a time when the nation’s school budgets are stretched to the breaking point. And the writing on the chalkboard grows clearer by the minute: Their market-based educational reforms don’t work.

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