Is current school reform undermining our democracy?

TLN member Ken Bernstein, blogging as "teacherken" at DailyKos:

I most often write about schools. I have often mentioned that I think we need a radical rethinking of the purpose of our schools, because the way they are structured and what we are doing with them is undermining our democracy and ultimately will also undermine our economy, not as the "reformers" would have you believe, but because we will be training drones, not educating creative thinkers who can add to our society and our economy.

via www.dailykos.com