Wendy Lecker: Two Books That Demonstrate Why Public Education Matters
Wendy Lecker is a civil rights attorney who writes frequently for the Stamford Advocate. In this column, she reviews two important books: One shows how...
Category : Philanthropy
Tom Ultican: When Tech Philanthropists Support EdTech, Beware!
Tom Ultican discovered a fascinating study of tech philanthropists and their self-serving gifts. Gates, Zuckerberg, and other tech giants are “giving” in a way that...
When Walton Family Says “Innovative,” They Mean Privately Controlled
What do you think the Walton Family Foundation has in mind when they seek out “innovative” approaches to schooling? We know that they speak their...
SomeDAM Poet on “Billyanthropy”
Our blog poet on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Gates never gives without getting a tax break and never gives without...
Richard Phelps Reviews Michelle Rhee’s “Reforms,” Ten Years Later, Part 1
A decade ago, Richard Phelps was assessment director of the District of Columbia Public Schools. His time in that position coincided with the last ten...
Ashley McCall: What If We Radically Reimagined School?
Ashley McCall is a bilingual third-grade teacher of English Language Arts in Chicago Public Schools. She asked in a recent post on her blog whether...
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....
Teachers and Principals in Oakland Give More to Neediest than Billionaires
The blog started today with an account of the paltry amounts of money that our leading edu-philanthropists are contributing to alleviate the suffering of students...
Chalkbeat: Big Education Philanthropists Are Missing in Action on Coronavirus Response
Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat checked to see what the billionaire philanthropists are doing in response to the coronavirus. The answer: Not much. When asked to...
Wired: Billionaire Philanthropists Should Not Be Responsible for Solving Public Problems
Rob Reich and Mohit Mookim write in “Wired” about the efforts by Bill Gates, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Chinese billionaire Jack Ma to step...