(Amsterdam News) — The Financial Times has dubbed Cathie Black, “The First Lady of American Magazines.” Hearst, her former employer, touts her executive work, saying, “She has managed the financial performance and development of some of the industry’s best-known [magazine] titles…At Hearst Magazines, aggressive, international development worldwide as well as significant digital expansion are two key priority areas for Black.” Sounds like your typical CEO or chairman of Hearst Magazines, as Black was. So what place do all these skills have in public education? The answer is that in an educational atmosphere, where underperforming schools are quickly becoming privately funded charter schools and test scores are becoming the overall fiscal target, the school system in New York City, and across the country, is becoming a for-profit business in need of a CEO. “There is a growing trend to appoint non-educators to ‘run’ urban school systems, and this is not a good idea,” said Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at NYU, the author of “The Myth of Charter Schools” and a former assistant secretary of education under the Bush administration.
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