{"id":324307,"date":"2017-09-02T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-rise-of-edu-business-in-australian-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2017-09-02T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:50:35","slug":"the-rise-of-edu-business-in-australian-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-rise-of-edu-business-in-australian-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of \u201cedu-business\u201d in Australian public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The rise of \u201cedu-business\u201d in Australian public schools<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Erika Zimmer<br \/>\n    <br \/>2 September 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In 2011, in his characteristically crude and cynical manner, Rupert Murdoch spelled out the agenda that now underlies the provision of so-called \u201cpublic education\u201d in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith common standards and a competitive market, we can deliver a first-class education to any child, from any background, in any classroom \u2026 I don\u2019t pretend to be an expert on academic standards. But as a business leader, I do know something about how common standards unlock investment and unleash innovation. With standards in place, investors are willing to take bigger risks because there are bigger rewards\u2026 Now it\u2019s true that setting common standards will help News Corporation as we try to figure out what programs our schools need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Murdoch makes clear, providing \u201cwhat programs our schools need\u201d is, for him, identical with \u201chelping\u201d them \u201cunlock investment and unleash innovation,\u201d and thus enable his News Corporation and the financial and corporate sector in general, to \u201creap bigger rewards,\u201d i.e., gouge profits out of the ever-accelerating privatisation of public education.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch\u2019s comments follow a series of initiatives carried out in the US along these lines. Some three decades ago, US businesses began demanding that schools adopt \u201cstandards\u201d and \u201cstandardised testing\u201d to implement them.<\/p>\n<p> In 2002 President George Bush\u2019s \u201cNo Child Left Behind\u201d (NCLB) mandated testing in all 50 states; Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cRace To The Top\u201d (RTTP) tied federal funding for schools even more closely to test-based performance standards; while Obama\u2019s Common Core State Standards established curricular standards across all states, making it possible for corporations such&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/02\/edu-s02.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The rise of \u201cedu-business\u201d in Australian public schools By Erika Zimmer 2 September 2017 In 2011, in his characteristically crude and cynical manner, Rupert Murdoch spelled out the agenda that now underlies the provision of so-called \u201cpublic education\u201d in Australia. \u201cWith common standards and a competitive market, we can deliver a first-class education to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}