Gates, Walton, and Chan-Zuckerberg Join to Find “Breakthroughs” in Education
Why do so many billionaires think that it is their responsibility to redesign education? I, personally, would prefer to see them spend their time figuring...
Category : Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative
Newark: Students Fall Behind During Pandemic in “Reform” Hotspot
Chalkbeat recently wrote about the dismal test scores posted recently by students in Newark, which attempts to show the effects of losing a year of...
Three Billionaires Combine to Seek a “Breakthrough” in Education, Despite a Long Record of Failures
Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat reported that the Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are joining forces to fund a “breakthrough”...
Maurice Cunningham: Who Got Suckered? Secretary Cardona or Readers of The74?
Maurice Cunningham is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. His specialty is following the gobs of money poured into “education reform.”...
National Education Policy Center: Thumbs Down for Summit Learning
The National Education Policy Center reviewed Summit Learning Program, which has been heavily subsidized by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Gates Foundation, is spreading, but...
Calling Bill Gates! Calling Mark Zuckerberg! Calling Jeff Bezos!
People have many times asked me if I had some good ideas for the billionaires who have been foisting terrible ideas on our public schools....
Tom Ultican: Billionaire Philanthropists Accelerate Attacks on Public Schools During Pandemic
Thomas Ultican has analyzed the billionaire funders behind the pro-Disruption, anti-democracy website “Education Post.” The major funders are the usual members of the Billionaire Boys...
Newark: Superintendent Wants to Close Four Charters and Limit New Ones
Roger Léon, superintendent of Newark schools, wants to close four charter schools and ban most new ones. Patrick Wall of Chalkbeat reports: The head of...
How CZI’s Summit Schools Excluded Its Own Students from an Open Meeting
Summit Public Schools, a Bay Area chain of charter schools that receives tens of millions of dollars from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Gates...
Do You Want Your Child to Attend a Mark Zuckerberg School?
The Coalition for Student Privacy writes here about a new book by Dianne Tavenner, who leads the Chan-Zuckerberg-funded Summit Charter Schools. The Summit approach is...