Free Trips Raise Issues for Officials in Education - 2 views

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  #1 Bonnie Sutton on 11 Oct 11

   

  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/education/10winerip.html?pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share&src=ISMR_AP_LI_LST_FBON EDUCATION
  Free Trips Raise Issues for Officials in Education
  By MICHAEL WINERIP
  
  Since 2008, the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of one of the nation's largest educational publishers, has financed free international trips - some have called them junkets - for education commissioners whose states do business with the company. When the state commissioners are asked about these trips - to Rio de Janeiro; London; Singapore; and Helsinki, Finland - they emphasize the time they spend with educators from around the world to get ideas for improving American public schools.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/education/10winerip.html?pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share&src=ISMR_AP_LI_LST_FB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/education/10winerip.html?pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share&src=ISMR_AP_LI_LST_FB</a>ON EDUCATION <br /> Free Trips Raise Issues for Officials in Education <br /> By MICHAEL WINERIP <br /> <br /> Since 2008, the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of one of the nation's largest educational publishers, has financed free international trips - some have called them junkets - for education commissioners whose states do business with the company. When the state commissioners are asked about these trips - to Rio de Janeiro; London; Singapore; and Helsinki, Finland - they emphasize the time they spend with educators from around the world to get ideas for improving American public schools.</div>

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