Education in almost every country in the world is subject to the grip of education ‘reform’ which is diminishing public schooling, promoting privatisation and destroying teacher professionalism. It aims to produce a narrowly educated workforce, which can read instructions and advertisements but is discouraged from thinking critically about the world.

~UK’s National Education Union

Betsy DeVos recently gallivanted around Europe, visiting schools. She has penned a commentary for Education Week “How We Can Catch Up to Other Countries in Education,” which is, of course, a putdown of America’s teachers and public school students. It’s un-American.

But there’s something greater going on here. Making America appear like it must compete against its European neighbors is a corporate move in itself.

What Betsy fails to tell us is that other countries are facing the same school crisis as America. There’s an invasion of corporate rule of schools around the world, like there is here.

Source: Betsy DeVos Conquers the World: The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM)