COVID-19 “CARES Act” Bankrolls AI Post-Human Education: DeVos, Thiel, Phase 2 of Project BEST

In 1982, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational
Research and Improvement for the US Department of Education, Charlotte Thomson
Iserbyt, blew the whistle on the Reagan Administration’s Project BEST (Better
Education Skills through Technology): a techno-fascist plan to privatize the American
school system by selling it out to Big Tech corporations that deliver B. F.
Skinner’s operant-conditioning method of “programmed instruction” through computerized
“teaching machines.” Almost thirty years later, the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
and Economic Security (CARES) Act” is primed to pump a flood of federal
education funds into online charter school corporations, such as K12 Inc.,
KIPP, and Connections Academy, which deploy “adaptive learning” software …read more