id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-190900	Singer, Alan J.	Hacking Away at the Corporate Octopus	2013	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7311	337	47	A question that must be addressed is whether the British publishing giant Pearson and its Pearson Education subsidy should determine who is qualified to teach and what should be taught in New York State and the United States? Pearson as a partner of the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers has been promoting the common core standards, pushing Singapore as a model for education in the United States and promoting conferences for educational officials where they have “the opportunity to explore emerging international methods, best practices, and policies with an eye to the ways in which they may apply to their local education contexts” (Pearson Foundation, 2008b).	cache/clogic-190900.pdf	txt/clogic-190900.txt