Film-makers Jack Paar and Ron Halpern are making a film about the corporate assault on public education.
It will be called “Corporatized.”
There are a growing number of videos about the corporate assault on public education. More are on the way. Videos are an important way of awakening the public to the well-coordinated threat to privatize public schools.
Here are some films and short videos that you should see and that you should show at community events
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing
Refuse tests: a short film (3:33)
Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District
Standardized testing is not teaching
http://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com
https://vimeo.com/122720631 (Defies Measurement)
Diane Ravitch's blog 
How about the short film “Defies Measurement”?
There’s a lot more pushback than there was. There’s a marked increase in just the last couple of years.
I remember watching Education Nation back at what I consider the peak, 2010 or so, maybe 2009 or 2011, and thinking “dear God, this is amazing, how coordinated this is”. It was frightening- former Presidents, a whole slew of governors, the billionaires, like 15 media personalities, all saying exactly the same things.
I remember one set where they had the governors seated in front of a banner with the logo of one of the sponsors, I think it was University of Phoenix, and I was just appalled.
The peak of reformer propaganda was 2010, with the release of Waiting for Superman, Education Nation, firing of teachers en masse at Central High in Prividence, RI.
Now they know the public is on to them, and they are rushing to “flood the zone” with charters before the next Presidential election. Never know what will happen to their clueless majority in Congress, and who knows whether the new President will be their cheerleader
Yup. I looked it up. They actually screened the film at the event.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39428180/ns/nbc_press/t/transcriptwaiting-superman-panel-discussion-nbcs-joe-scarborough-nbcs-mika-brzezinskidavis-guggenheim-director-waiting-supermanrandi-weingarten-pres-american-federation-teachers-harlem-children-zones-geoffrey-canada/#.VjTkrNWrTnA
University of Phoenix was a sponsor. That was the height of the recession here- we had 16% unemployment and there were foreclosure auctions everywhere you looked- and I was just starting to hear about for-profit college rip offs on a regular basis from people here.
To watch the governors endorsing for-profit education was just incredibly depressing to me. If nothing else, I expect them to have more self-respect than that, which I suppose was naive.
Good luck getting the films on Netflix or Amazon!
(And, does “The Inconvenient Truth about Waiting for Superman” apply?)
Already have distribution in place. In talks with HBO
Huh, great list. I am watching them one by one.
Do you have any that would talk about corporatization of higher ed?
The players are mostly the same. For example, the J. Oliver video, at about 11minutes, talks about how Pearson owns the testing industry. Well, Pearson has the same role in higher ed: they flood us books, online courses, software, by paying admins, politicians—and, unfortunately, profs.
This guy wins for ed reformer of the week:
“Helen Thackston Charter School employees missed two paychecks in October, but thanks to a loan from state Sen. Scott Wagner, the school will stay afloat.
On Thursday, the Spring Garden Township Republican made a nearly $400,000 loan to the school to meet that missed payroll and to cover utility costs and health insurance payments, he said Thursday evening. The school has about 530 students.
“Thackston was faced with tomorrow not making payroll,” he said. “The bottom line is that tomorrow, the teachers, 70 people, weren’t going to get paid for the month and they’d be owed two paychecks and that’s not right.”
They don’t even pretend to represent the public schools in their districts anymore. It’s all charters. all the time.
http://www.ydr.com/story/news/education/2015/10/29/thackston-charter-afloat-due-wagner-loan/74843860/
Looking forward to both Corporatized and The Public School Wars, by Bill Baykan… also in production.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I4ehhHQQHw