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jcd writes:
"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."
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Backlash for Gates Foundation's Education Plans
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by duvel on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:19PM
On the other hand, if we all were liberal arts students, we'd starve to death in a matter of weeks.
The Gates Foundation is aimed at increasing living conditions in third world countries. these countries have a strong need for a populace that can work in factories, or maybe even in the services industry. Third world countries do not have the luxury yet to stop focussing on basic economic productivity. Once the living standards in those countries are up to par, then they can start worrying about eduction that develops more than just economic skills.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by cwix on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:12AM
Then they really should stick to the third world countries. I am not sure I am real fond of this common core that is being put into place here in the US.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by m on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:15AM
This controversy has nothing to do with work in "third world countries," unless you consider the US to fall in that category. Along with work in other places in the world, the Gates Foundation does a lot of lobbying / activity in the US to shape educational policy --- specifically, to bring US public education under megacorporate control. They're big partners with the Walton foundations (of "we pay our full-time workers so little they need food stamps" Wal*Mart) to push for charter schools and getting private fingers in the public education funds pie. InBloom doesn't have anything to do with developing education in third-world countries; rather, it's the race-to-the-bottom to make the US just like a profitable, exploitable third-world country.