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This is a short article on the subject, followed by a much longer 'Part 2' (Amazon is Coming to a School Near You) on National Education Policy Center's website. The message is the same in both parts: the blending of corporate interests and the education system results in a redesign of the system to meet narrow private sector needs at the expense of individual education, and also, corporations take much more out of the system than they put back into it. "These are the very same companies that have structured our economy in ways that keep my students in poverty," Clark explained. "And now they're going to come into my school and tell me they want to sell me something that will create equal opportunity for my students?"

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