{"id":4799,"date":"2016-04-04T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2016-04-04T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:32:06","slug":"real-crisis-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4799","title":{"rendered":"THE REAL CRISIS IN EDUCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is the attempt by right-wing plutocrats to destroy America&#8217;s system of free public education, the same way that the real crisis in Social Security is the right wing&#8217;s attempt to end it.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Ravitch.net is a great place to go if you want to know about the charter school\/privatization scam, and btw both our president and our governor are among the most complicit pitchmen.<\/p>\n<p>Ravitch is, of course, one of the country&#8217;s leading education scholars. You know, someone who actually knows something about what she&#8217;s talking about, if that&#8217;s not too tautological for you. In other words, a true rarity in our public discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Ravitch has been uncompromising about insisting that corporate titans stick to selling stuff and keep their noses out of education policy about which they are either under-informed, or view simply as a potential means of vast self-enrichment, taxpayer-funded of course.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about takers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is the attempt by right-wing plutocrats to destroy America&#8217;s system of free public education, the same way that the real crisis in Social Security is the right wing&#8217;s attempt to end it. Diane Ravitch.net is a great place to go &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}