<irony> Yes ... the great rush to the middle is a huge comfort to me </irony>
One interesting thing is that Michael Milkin is the big(gest?) corporate
shaker and mover in propagating (and even moreso, appropriating) the "New
Schools" (meaning global corporate ownership of formerly public education
systems) for the "New Economy/Times" discourse. Since they let him out of
jail for perpetrating the biggest junk bonds fraud of the 80s, I must
assume he's reformed and now has the interests of children's education at
heart.
Can anybody explain to me what the terms "New Economy" or "New Times"
means, please? I've been looking into it for some time now and, other than
purely superficial changes (fashions, accessories, etc), I can't decipher
anything particularly 'New' about anything, other than the language used to
describe how things "work" (or don't); the means of communicating this; and
increasingly centralised ownership (which also isn't really new, just
advanced) of the means of fixing whatever problems the "New" stuff brings
with it.
Phil (distinctly "Old").