Nancy Bailey: “The Truth About Reading” Isn’t True
Nancy Bailey is a retired teacher who battles misinformation and propaganda. In this post, she dissects a new film called “The Truth About Reading,” which...
Category : Gates Foundation
Manufacturing Consent for Market-Driven Schooling
Christopher A. Lizotte of the University of Washington and Dan Cohen published an interesting research paper about how market-driven policies have been promoted and sold....
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...
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”...
“Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need”
Writing in Scientific American, Million Belay and Beatrice Mugambe complain that the Gates Foundatuon is steering African agriculture in the wrong direction. Financed by Gates,...
Tom Loveless: Why the Common Core Standards Failed
Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, interviewed scholar Tom Loveless about the failure of the Common Core on her weekly radio show called...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Bill Gates, But Didn’t Ask
Walter Isaccson, author of best-selling biographies and former editor of TIME, wrote this awestruck article about Bill Gates in 1997. At the time, Bill was...
Tom Loveless: Why Common Core Failed
Tom Loveless is an experienced education researcher who taught sixth grade in California. He has long been skeptical of top-down solutions to classroom-level problems. In...
Laura Chapman: Education Trust and Its Well-Funded Demands That the Biden Administration Deny Waivers from the Tests
As readers are well aware, the federal law called the Every Student Succeeds Act continued the mandated annual testing of students in grades 3-8 in...
Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...