Julian Vasquez Heilig urges you to watch Shannon Puckett’s “Defies Measurement.” Like Peter Greene, he says it is a terrific film about the way that corporate reformers are destroying public education.
I watched it too. It is a comprehensive look at corporate reform and how it destroyed one very successful school. It is now destroying thousands of public schools that are the heart of their communities.
The film is online and free.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The unjust destruction of a great school in a poor community is all to familiar to those of us who have worked in schools of the poor. It is a really well done documentary.
I had the fun of posting a note to my nephew’s wife, Sarah Reckhow, telling her to “wake up….you have been mentioned as a source in Diane Ravitch’s story about Laura Chapman”…..I have never heard of the Russell Sage foundation, but my nephew, Matt Grossmann, just received a grant from them for a project called: “How Do the Rich Rule?
Public Opinion, Parties, and Interest Groups in Unequal Policy Influence” Very detailed, if follows up work by Martin Gilens, who has decades of work in this area. Matt and Sarah mostly like to talk about their kids….
Great documentary-what a great school was like and what happened when “reform” came in.
Everything I read about for the last couple years-clearly explained.
Come on, people! If you haven’t watched the film yet, do. Now!