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Backlash for Gates Foundation's Education Plans

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the corporate-sponsorship dept.
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: 1) by unitron on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:52AM

    by unitron (70) on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:52AM (#3094) Journal

    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

    by demonlapin (925) on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:06AM (#3152) Journal
    You're ignoring what makes them good: they exclude the idiots who aren't there to learn. If you swapped the student bodies of the public schools in the worst part of New York with those of the public schools in the richest NYC suburbs, what do you think would happen? Keep funding and the teachers exactly the same.