After Joel Klein Hire, News Corp. Buys Wireless Generation

First Posted: 01/24/11 05:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:15 PM ET

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On Monday, News Corporation announced that it had signed an agreement to buy 90 percent of Wireless Generation for $360 million in cash, its first foray into the for-profit world of education since its book publishing arm, Harper Collins, got out of the textbook business in the mid-1990s. The deal thrusts one of the world's largest media conglomerates behind a concept championed by New York City's schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein: a numbers-based system to evaluate and rank schools and to improve teaching.

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On Monday, News Corporation announced that it had signed an agreement to buy 90 percent of Wireless Generation for $360 million in cash, its first foray into the for-profit world of education since it...
On Monday, News Corporation announced that it had signed an agreement to buy 90 percent of Wireless Generation for $360 million in cash, its first foray into the for-profit world of education since it...
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Jazz88105
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03:28 PM on 11/26/2010
Just what we need News Corp and Rupert Murdoch in the Education business. sieg heil.
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09:24 PM on 11/25/2010
Joel I. Klein is and was the perfect spokesman for the 21st century education reform in the age of Business GREED! It is very poetic that he leaves his dystopian ideals of education/societal change for Rupert Murdoch. We have no need to spend on infrastructure or empower the poor, just change to a business model with doctored books and you have perceived success. They doctor the books and most AMERICANS we will buy anything in the New Chimerica!
Greed + Ignorance = Profits + Control
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04:29 PM on 11/25/2010
terrifying.
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farmilyman
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01:16 AM on 11/25/2010
If it's anything like Faux News we can only expect dumbing down the students.
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12:51 PM on 11/24/2010
Yesterday in Education Week, Rupert was quoted as saying "When it comes to K through 12 education, we see a $500 billion sector in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed by big breakthroughs that extend the reach of great teaching,". Rupert Murdoch owns News Corp. and the Wall Streety Journal.
Race to the Top funds, a $ 4.3 billion dollar program was funded with money taken out of the 2009 stimulus.
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12:43 PM on 11/24/2010
Will John Lui be looking over any future contracts with News Corporation?
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changing
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11:57 AM on 11/24/2010
Don't allow any deformer to talk about education anymore. It is and always has been about plundering public education for the money. No more letting them get away with this nonsense. Duncan and the rich elitists like Gates, Klein, and Black have to go.
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