Guest Blog: Billionaire Philanthropy and the Chicago Teachers' Strike
The following is a guest posting by Robin Rogers, associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Robin's last post was the popular " Billionaire Education Policy ." She can be reached via email at robinrogers99@gmail.com Follow her on Twitter: @Robin_Rogers Earlier this week I was a guest panelist for Al Jazeera English’s news program Inside Story . The half-hour feature – provocatively entitled “Should U.S. schools be run like businesses?” – focused on the Chicago teachers’ strike that had begun that morning. The two other guests were Joanne Barkan , who writes on economic, labor and education issues, and her clear foil Matthew Chingo s, a fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. – and, I should note, currently in a heated debate with Sara Goldrick-Rab . Barkan and Chingos are formidable thinkers and articulate advocates for their positions o...