“Micromanaging Curricula to Miseducate Students”–Truthout considers Gerald Coles’s new book

Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures
256 pp, $24 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-690-5
By Gerald Coles

Reviewed by Eve Ottenberg

“Over the past year, the Trump administration’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educational program garnered $300 million in pledges from big tech companies. Implicit in this push is the commonly accepted though questionable notion that millions of cutting-edge STEM jobs await US workers but go unfilled because public schools have failed to prepare students for them….”

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