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Speaking out against the privatization of public schools, Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, addressed an audience of approximately 70 people last night at the Graduate School of Education...
...Shanker cited discontent with the current educational system and the decline in American student's test scores compared with those of students in other countries as the major factors leading to the drive for privatization. He characterized the attitude of the movement as follows: "Because we're falling behind, let's try something radically different that no one has ever tried before...
...However, Shanker warned against jumping into privatizing schools without understanding the potential consequences. "I wouldn't just say let's role the dice and maybe this will work," he said...
...Jason Shanker...
...Harvard students are as devoted as Shanker, but on a campus also stocked with poets, hockey players, actors and young entrepreneurs, there is no shortage of Deadheads...