That means support
of the quest for a new international economic order and willingness to share generously the tremendous
profit the U.S. has been getting
out of the region — sharing through substantial financial aid for
public works, food,
education and housing projects.
This black - and - white storyline plays
out in
education, even as other sensitive areas
of domestic
public policy (like health care or environmental protection) prove far more comfortable with the role that for -
profits play.
More than twenty years ago, Paul Hill wrote Reinventing
Public Education, a landmark book that argued that school districts should get
out of the business
of running schools directly and contract with for -
profit and non-
profit providers instead.
And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not
profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think
of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the
public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in
public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers /
education administrators), and my last year in
public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one
of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way
out of the NYC
public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (
out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»
In the former view as Hargreaves and Fullan point
out, «the purpose
of public education is increasingly to yield a short - term
profit with quick returns for its investors....