Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, MSPH

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, MSPH is a Fellow of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has written widely on vouchers, charter schools, and public school privatization. He has appeared on the Today Show with Matt Lauer and National Public Radio’s The Connection to discuss public school privatization, and he has lectured to parent, teacher, and union groups throughout the nation. He may be reached at [email protected]. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Dismantling Public Education from Reagan to Obama: Public School Privatization, Race to the Top (RTTT), and Common Core

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, MSPH Guest Commentator

a perfect storm appears to be emerging that is systematically downsizing public education as we know it. RTTT and Common Core are the main policies that many view as contributing to an evolving crisis in K-12 education. They have been fostered by the five most recent U.S. presidents with the most significant contributor being the Obama Administration.

Public education has been under constant attack for more than three decades as conservative corporate, intellectual, and political reformers have devised policies and practices to dismantle…

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