"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary backer for the inBloom educational grading and service (which also acts as a platform for third-party applications), is catching flak for its role in encouraging the outsourcing of US Education. The article (cited by RMS today) argues that though the Common Core is a scary new concept that takes power away from state and local school governance, the real danger is allowing corporate enterprises to have so much control over our classrooms. The Washington Post also reports a case where Pearson included corporate logos and promotional materials inside its test booklets."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GeminiDomino on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:59PM
They'll have theirs by then, so why should they care?
I'm still not sure if a sickening lack of foresight is an inborn trait, or if it's got its own coursework in the MBA track...
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"