Diane Ravitch: “Attack on Public Education is an Attack on Democracy”

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Education historian Diane Ravitch joins Bill Moyers to discuss how public education is becoming a big business with bankers, hedge-fund managers and private-equity investors entering what they consider to be an “emerging market,” exemplified by the rapid growth in charter schools across the United States.

Miles Kampf-Lassin is Senior Editor at In These Times. Follow him at @MilesKLassin

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