Gates Foundation

School Choice & Charters Opinion Why Do Corporate Reformers Hate Democracy?
Reed Hastings was right about one thing. If you go to the American public and actually tell them you want to eliminate elected school boards, or completely disempower them, no one's going to go for that. So instead, these billionaires conspire.
Anthony Cody, March 27, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion The Common Core: Are They Even Really Standards?
Diane Ravitch this morning has revealed the basic accepted process for the setting of national standards, and the process leading to the Common Core violated just about every step.
Anthony Cody, March 24, 2014
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School Climate & Safety Opinion Lauren Anderson: Grit, Galton, and Eugenics
What are we to make of a 2013 "genius" award winner quoting unproblematically the 'founding father' of eugenics in the opening paragraph of her research statement, even as her research engages young people of color?
Anthony Cody, March 21, 2014
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Families & the Community Opinion Paul Horton: Free Market Education Reform -- Evidence vs. Ideology
They conclude that empirical evidence does not support the marketist legitimation of privatization. The public sector has not failed, they contend, it has thrived and deserves much more support;
Anthony Cody, March 17, 2014
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School & District Management Opinion Gates and Duncan Seek to Use Trust in Teachers to Promote Common Core
If leadership is appointed and anointed by those in power, than it can be revoked by those in power. So if we want to be leaders, we are better off developing that status in a way that does not rely on such official designations.
Anthony Cody, March 16, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Paul Horton: Why the Common Core Is Unlike Standards of the Past
Understanding Common Core is about seeing a much larger picture. That picture is a collage of the strategic plans of most multinational corporations that are increasingly managed or heavily influenced by the CBS approach to business and labor relations.
Anthony Cody, February 25, 2014
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Curriculum Opinion Paul Horton: Will Liberal Arts be Saved by the Common Core?
Not much here for those who are seeing their courses and jobs cut. There seems to be a central message here: follow the Common Core like the yellow-brick road or there might not be any funding for the humanities.
Anthony Cody, February 19, 2014
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Ed-Tech Policy Opinion Bill Gates, On the Record
I am less interested in the praise that he will heap on the accomplished educators in the room than in what he has said and done in the past, when speaking to altogether different audiences. So like Marley's ghost on Christmas eve, I want to take us on a bit of a tour of the echoes of Gates' past
Anthony Cody, February 18, 2014
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Ed-Tech Policy Opinion Is Gates Money Going to Influence the National Board?
The Gates agenda is clear, so if you are looking to fund a non-profit or "research" organization, you know what you need to say and do in order to qualify for funding.
Anthony Cody, February 16, 2014
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Teaching Profession Opinion John Thompson: Vergara Show Trial Highlights Gates Foundation Snake Oil
Vergara is a tragic distraction from the real problems facing our high-challenge schools, as well as the real reasons why it is difficult to staff high-poverty schools.
Anthony Cody, February 13, 2014
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College & Workforce Readiness Opinion Are Corporate Education Reformers Like Young Earth Creationists?
In the spirit of the recent debate between science educator Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham, let's take a look at the central points of belief for corporate education reform, and see if there is evidence.
Anthony Cody, February 9, 2014
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Ed-Tech Policy Opinion The Gates Foundation's Imaginary World of School Reform Collides with Reality
Such a distinction between idealized implementation and reality would seem to be progress. Just when it seemed like the Gates Foundation was conceding that it is important to acknowledge the facts about their theories, however, Phillips showed she was just spouting rhetoric.
Anthony Cody, February 5, 2014
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Teaching Profession Opinion Paul Horton: Why Obama's Education Policies Will Not Change and Why "Change is Hard"
What the President did not tell the AFT crowd in 2008 was that the school that he was describing was a charter school that had closed its doors to a large percentage of students who started with the class
Anthony Cody, February 4, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion New Mexico Law Would Halt Common Core, Require Public Hearings and Investigation into Costs
add New Mexico to her list of 22 where there is unrest regarding Common Core standards. And this time, the source is not from any conservative wing of the Republican party; it is a Democratic legislator, State Senator Linda Lopez, who is leading the charge.
Anthony Cody, February 3, 2014
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