News Corporation Murdoch. Wireless Generation. News Corp Rebrands Its Education Division, But Is It Enough for Schools to Trust It? News Corp and Education: Some Background Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp made two important acquisitions in November 2010: paying $360 million for a 90% stake in the educational content/assessment company Wireless Generation and hiring New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. These were the first signs that News Corp was making a foray – clearly a political and a technological one – into the education sector. But there were plenty of questions about what exactly the publishing/news company had in mind .
Since then, News Corp has made a few more moves, including hiring Diana Rhoten, the co-founder of education startup accelerator Startl, teaming up with the College Board to make education an important issue in the 2012 Presidential campaign, and sending Murdoch and Klein to speak at various events about the “failures” of the current education system and the promises of technology to fix things. Klein will be CEO. Rhoten, CSO. News Corp and Education: Some Analysis. Joel Klein.
Joel Irwin Klein (born October 25, 1946) is an American lawyer and school superintendent. He was the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools. He was succeeded by Cathie Black in January 2011. Early life and education[edit] Klein grew up in New York City and attended public schools, graduating from William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens in 1963.
He attended Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, again graduating magna cum laude, in 1971. Career[edit] In 1975, Klein joined the legal team of the Washington, D.C. non-profit Mental Health Law Project. Klein was rumored to be one of Barack Obama's candidates for Secretary of Education.[5] Ultimately, the position went to the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan.
News Corporation[edit] Education and Military Rivalry: More Closely Tied Than You Think - Ideas Market. By Christopher Shea Mary Evans Picture Library/Everett Collection An infantryman gets a target in his sights during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870. France’s defeat in the war led to an increased investment in primary education. Joel Klein, Condoleezza Rice, and other worthies have just published a book titled “U.S.
Education Reform and National Security.” At first blush, this might seem like an odd angle from which to approach the topic of education. But the authors may be onto something. Increasing investment in education is often viewed through the lens of democratization. What’s more, “democratic transitions are negatively associated with education investments.” Access to education, the economists’ data show, tends to increase when 1) a nation faces a strong military rival or rivals, and 2) when it has fought a war in the past 10 years. It’s About Innovation, Not ‘Privatization’
Edu-entrepreneur Joel Klein has a message for all of you haters: It’s about innovation, not privatization. When it comes to the best way to turn around our disastrous public schools virtually everyone who is anyone agrees: the schools need “stuff,” lots and lots of “stuff.” But the question remains: what kinds of edu-products should we use to fill in the achievement gap? In other words, once we’ve finally freed up all those edu-bucks by getting rid of the LIFO lifers with their outrageous salaries and benefits, what cool products should we spend the money on?
The possibilities are limitless. Reader, I’d like to introduce you to a product pioneer. OK then—we can all go home, right? They toss around the dreaded ‘p’ word, privatization, which Mr. What’s that haters, you’re still not buying it? The critique that really ignites a response in me, however, is the idea that education companies are motivated only by money. I agree with Mr. Joel Klein: As Excellent As He Says He Is? Part I. I and many others spent a good deal of time last year documenting the real legacy of Michelle Rhee. This is important work: Rhee occupies an outsized place in the current debate about education "reform," largely based on claims of her own success, both as a teacher and as Chancellor of Washington, D.C.'s schools. Thanks to the close scrutiny of Gary Brandenburg, Bob Somerby, Matt DiCarlo, Dana Goldstein, Diane Ravitch, USA Today, and others, we now know the true story: Rhee was never a miracle worker. She was, at best, an average new teacher (meaning she had a long way to go) and a mediocre large-city superintendent when judged by student achievement (when judged by other criteria, she was clearly a trainwreck).
It's important to get this on the record, because the anti-teacher and anti-union "reforms" Rhee implemented in D.C. - the very ones she wants to impose on the rest of the country - did nothing to affect large-scale changes in educational outcomes. Which brings us to Joel Klein. News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools. Amplify.com is shutting down. News Corporation Unveils Amplify to Bring Digital Innovation to K-12 Education. Wireless Generation. News Corp.'s Amplify Education Project Tests Tablet Learning With AT&T. State Education Contract Canceled With News Corp. Subsidiary Wireless Generation.