On Attacks on Public Education

Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson, a founder of Rethinking Schools magazine and former president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, who blogs at Educate for Democracy. They discuss attacks on public education, the history of vouchers and charter schools, the working conditions of teachers, the role of the profit motive in privatization, and ways to get involved in improving schooling.

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