Episode
8/23 Sarah Knopp & Jeff Bale, The Assault on Public Education
August 23, 2012
On today’s show Sam talked with Educators Sarah Knopp and Jeff Bale, editors of the anthology Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation, about the corporate assault
on public schools, testing, class and social mobility and what the true purpose of education really is.
On the Better Half: Gawker gets its hands on troves of Bain documents detailing Romney’s shady tax schemes, will a hurricane hit Tampa during the RNC? Sam drops a Barry White impression and also does a Random Rush.
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