AUSTIN, Texas --- Is education a right and a public good, or is it a commodity from which corporations can profit? “Starving The Beast,” a documentary which premiered March 13 at the SXSW Film festival, reveals the struggle between these two paradigms for higher education taking place across the country at publicly funded universities. From
‘Starving The Beast’: Documentary Reveals How Wall Street ‘Disrupted’ Public Education
Some of the country’s most respected public universities have been devastated by years of cuts, and corporations have stepped in to turn publicly funded education into private profit.