Welcome to Truth in Public Education

This blog is dedicated to the truth that the best of America is revealed in its public educational systems. In spite of our country's efforts to provide the highest quality education accessible to all, our public educational system is under attack. While I will discuss the efforts of those who seek to protect public education at the K-12 level, waging war against free market proponents intent on mass privitization, the majority of the posts on this site will focus on the battle to maintain the integrity of public universities under assault by private corporations seeking to tap into the resevoir of potential profits created through a combination of student tuitions, federal grants, student loans, and state appropriations.

I invite blog readers to post comments and open up a dialogue in the truest spirit of American truth seeking. At a time when corporations are exerting draconian controls over public discourse, it is important to remember that freedom of speech is a treasured right we still enjoy in this country.

I have been following a particular coporation's foray into the higher education market -- Higher Ed Holdings (HEH). Until recently I was reading, with great interest, a blog entitled Stophehcorporateplundering@blogspot.com. Unfortunately, that blog no longer exists. I hope Diligent Educator will continue to inform the public about this important issue. In the meantime, however, I feel compelled to continue to illuminate the public about what I consider to be a very important, high stakes, issue -- corporate plundering of higher education. I saved many of the postings on the aforementioned blog and will begin my postings by republishing several of Diligent Educator's postings.