How America Keeps Its Citizens Uneducated

#educationcrisis #genalphacantread #waronpublicschools

We are in the midst of an ongoing public education crisis. There’s a war on public education and an active push to defund public schools. In this video, I discuss America’s long history of anti-intellectualism and how there’s a push to privatize public schools and defund public libraries to keep Americans uneducated. Public schools are failing and it isn't an accident.

Sources:
Michael Moore and Tony Ben clip from ‘Sicko’ documentary:    • Michael Moore interviews Tony Benn  


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Defunding public libraries: Republicans' war on reading goes nuclear
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Slavery and the Modern-Day Prison Plantation
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Business Efficiency, American Schooling, and the Public School Superintendency:
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