jcd [soylentnews.org] writes:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, primary backers for the
inBloom [commondreams.org] 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 [commondreams.org]. The article (
cited by RMS today [stallman.org]) 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 capitalistic enterprises to have so much control over our classrooms. Cited, a case where Pearson included
corporate logos and promotional materials [washingtonpost.com] inside its test booklets.
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