Murdoch buys education technology company

[Hannah Bell]

This didn't take long: Joel Klein announces Nov. 9 that at year’s end he will resign as York City’s Schools chancellor to become executive vice president at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Yesterday, the company announced that it was buying a technology company with big financial ties to the New York City school system.

Murdoch’s company, according to a story at businesswire.com, is acquiring 90 percent of Wireless Generation, a privately held Brooklyn-based education technology company, for approximately $360 million in cash. It will become a subsidiary of News Corp.

One of the things Wireless Generation does is build large-scale data systems that centralize student data and is a “key partner to New York City’s Department of Education on its Achievement Reporting and Innovation System (ARIS) as well as on the City’s School of One initiative,” the story said.

(The ARIS contracts -- worth tens of millions of dollars -- and the contracts the New York City Education Department has issued for its School of One program were apparently negotiated rather than competitively bid.)

After Klein’s announcement, News Corp. officials told the New York Times that Klein would advise Murdoch on a number of initiatives, including “developing business strategies FOR THE EMERGING EDUCATIONAL MARKETPLACE.”

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[Newest Reality]

1. Read:

Capturing a market for preliminary education-based propaganda and debt-indentured servitude to emerging corporate policy.

[fascisthunter]

2. so he can brainwash children into being good fascists

[Binka]

3. Exactly!

[erodriguez]

4. I've tried multiple times to get a job at that company...I think I'll stop trying

[Bobbieo]

5. There is no escaping the Right Wing billionaires! They control the world.

[Starry Messenger]

6. k&r

They can't wait to get their lunch-hooks into all that plunder.

[Bozita]

7. How did Rupert miss good ol' Neil Bush?

[maryf]

8. K&R

:rofl: :cry: :rofl: :cry: :grr: insanity rules...

[DemocraticPilgrim]

9. He's pretty relentless isn't he, but the answer has always been easy get the word out globally what

about what he's doing. Most people around the world because he's doing it across the globe have no idea how he's trying control global public opinion, once folks get it, it will stop. Every tweet you make every facebook apge you join let everyone know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjwJ2JSEjzM