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National Education Policy Center: Thumbs Down for Summit Learning

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 25, 2020November 26, 2020

June 25, 2020November 26, 202007

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...

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Calling Bill Gates! Calling Mark Zuckerberg! Calling Jeff Bezos!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7May 25, 2020November 26, 2020

May 25, 2020November 26, 2020018

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....

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Tom Ultican: Billionaire Philanthropists Accelerate Attacks on Public Schools During Pandemic

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 29, 2020November 26, 2020

March 29, 2020November 26, 202004

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...

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Newark: Superintendent Wants to Close Four Charters and Limit New Ones

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 9, 2020November 26, 2020

January 9, 2020November 26, 202006

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...

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How CZI’s Summit Schools Excluded Its Own Students from an Open Meeting

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 16, 2019November 26, 2020

December 16, 2019November 26, 202005

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...

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Do You Want Your Child to Attend a Mark Zuckerberg School?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 3, 2019November 26, 2020

November 3, 2019November 26, 202006

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...

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Morgan Ames: Why Techies Are Not Experts About Everything

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 1, 2019November 26, 2020

November 1, 2019November 26, 202006

Morgan Ames is a techie. She majored in computer science at Berkeley and now works at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. She...

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Advising a Democratic Candidate

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 24, 2019November 26, 2020

October 24, 2019November 26, 202006

Masha Gessen, a Russian emigre and journalist, always has interesting commentaries on U.S. politics. In this New Yorker article, she writes about Mark Zuckerberg and...

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Peter Greene: Chan Zuckerberg Partners with Sesame Street and Elmo (Oh, No!)

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 17, 2019November 26, 2020

September 17, 2019November 26, 202007

Peter Greene demonstrates here (yet again) that there is nothing that money cannot buy (and corrupt). Now it is Sesame Street (although as he points...

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Wall Street Journal: Schools Invest Zillions in Technology, Parents Push Back

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 8, 2019November 26, 2020

September 8, 2019November 26, 202003

Technology in the classroom has become so ubiquitous that the use of papers and pencils or pens seems innovative. The Wall Street Journal published a...

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