"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: 1) by unitron on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:56AM
By public education, I mean grades 1-12.
And I don't know enough about either student body or university to answer your question, the relevance of which to what I said escapes me.
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(Score: 1) by demonlapin on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:01PM
Not everyone is capable of obtaining a meaningful high school diploma. The difference between a "good" school system and a "bad" school system largely boils down to how many of the students are there to learn, and how many are being warehoused against their will. Schools can allow people to reach their maximum potential, but what they are really bad at doing is figuring out when that maximum potential has been reached and then getting them out the door and into doing something productive.
(Score: 1) by unitron on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:52AM
Young families buy houses because they're near good elementary schools, not because they're near good universities.
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(Score: 1) by demonlapin on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:06AM
(Score: 1) by unitron on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:01AM
Are you seriously giving me grief for not being familiar enough with CSU-SB to know that most people have never heard of it?
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