Why would anyone trust WaMu's disgraced CEO on education issues?

Seattle Post Intelligencer by David Marshak | Apr. 18, 2008 (Opinion)

It's only fair for Killinger that we hold him to the same standard that he set for kids. Killinger said, "The 'real world' is unforgiving." Fair enough. Then we should not forgive Killinger for his colossal failures at WaMu. We certainly should no longer pay any more attention to what he says about education. And we should certainly reconsider the standards-and-testing industrial school model that Killinger worked so hard to install in Washington public ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Education
Topics: Corporate Governance, Primary School
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Apr 18, 2008 - 12:03 PM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

While the column speaks of one narcissus-challenged greed master who used his status of wealth to degrade the public services of the nation, the story maps onto similar inappropriate status and negative impact of big money corporate money power upon the whole nation. Corporate attempts to privatize education in charter schools that remove the democracy of school boards, attempts to assembly-line the education process in a sway that generates socially ignorant worker bees, these attempts are much broader than just the super-rich Mr. Killinger.

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