<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans MT'" style="font-size: 14px; ">Here is the link to my new article--on the political operations behind "education reform." Please post the link or send it to readers who might be interested. Feel free to post excerpts as well (but not the entire article). Comments welcome.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans MT'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div>Joanne Barkan</div></div><div><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><div class="issue-article" style="padding-top: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=4240" style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff2f00">Hired Guns on Astroturf:</font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(58, 81, 139); "><a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=4240" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(58, 81, 139); "><br></a></span></font></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><div style="color: rgb(138, 157, 206); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(138, 157, 206); line-height: 15px; "><br></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" color="#3b009d" style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 18px; "><a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=4240" style="text-decoration: none; ">How to Buy and Sell School Reform</a></font></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3b009d"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" color="#3b009d">by Joanne Barkan</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(138, 157, 206); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=4240">http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=4240</a></font></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><div class="issue-article" style="padding-top: 15px; "><div style="line-height: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></div></div></div><div class="issue-article" style="padding-top: 15px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>from "Hired Guns on Astroturf":</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">If you want to change </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">government policy</span></i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>change the politicians who make it. The</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>implications of this truism have now taken</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>hold in the market-modeled “education reform</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>movement.” As a result, the private funders</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>and nonprofit groups that run the movement</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>have overhauled their strategy. They’ve gone</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>political as never before—like the National</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>Rifle Association or Big Pharma or (ed</i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>reformers emphasize) the teachers’ unions. </i></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; ">...</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><i>Jonah Edelman, CEO of Stand for Children</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>($5.2 million from the Gates Foundation, 2003–2011), </i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>sums </i></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><i>up the thinking: “We’ve learned the hard way</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>that if you want to have the clout needed to</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>change policies for kids, you have to help</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>politicians get elected. It’s about money,</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i style="font-size: 14px; ">money, money” (Wall Street Journal, November </i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i style="font-size: 14px; ">3, 2010</i></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><i>).</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><img id="e5d18640-accb-48a7-86c0-e4871a0c2799" height="95" width="432" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:0D4B93AA-33B2-49B8-8665-951A101CE896@nyc.rr.com"></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><img id="71926e25-d0ca-4c4f-851d-813192b11024" height="26" width="158" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1EF18B00-C553-44D3-A3BC-E19C2E15863A@nyc.rr.com"></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></span></font></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div></div><br></div></div><br></body></html>