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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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(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.