Reposted with permission from Nancy Bailey’s Education Website. Empowered is a popular word. But in North Dakota they are handing schools over to Knowledgeworks, a foundation that
Category: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton
Pre-K Profit: ReadyNation Hosts Global Business Leaders in New York City this November
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. The rise of pay for success, social impact bonds, development impact bonds, and outcomes-based contracting will usher in privatization of
Beware of Tech Titans Bearing Gifts
Reposted with permission from Nancy Bailey’s Education Website. The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) gift likely means huge changes for schools across the country. We’ve known for a
Ted Dintersmith is not here to save neighborhood schools!
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Dintersmith knows good storytelling has the power to sway people’s opinions and has the money to buy the
Step-by-step Privatization and Profit: ESSA Delivers Schools to Wall Street with a Bow on Top
Reposted with permission from Educationalchemy. ESSA was designed to open the flood gates for neoliberal profiteers to not only profit from public educations services (I,e. tests or
Schools as Sacrifice Zones & The Gates Foundation’s Avoidance of the Toughest Question
Here’s my toughest question for Bill and Malinda Gates: What are you doing to end school shootings in the United States? What is your plan
ALEC, iNACOL, and Online Learning Pathways
Original Title:Original Title: iNACOL’s Trojan Horse. Reposted with permission from Save Maine Schools – Helping You Navigate Next-Gen Ed Reform. Under the guise of bringing alternate,
Dear Congress, you are being duped. HR4174-S2046 is a Privacy Fail. Here’s why. ( And please no more suspended rules and voice votes on these bills. )
Reposted with permission from Missouri Education Watchdog. I will say it again… When it comes to their own children, parents have little to no say in education
Living the Gig Life: Tom Vander Ark’s Plans for My 6th Grader
That my kid was a potential stepping stone to the introduction of the entrepreneurial spirt – so valued by those pushing the gig economy –
Is Summit Basecamp Bill Gates’ Latest Plan for Public Education?
So far, The Gates Foundation has given $300 million of support to promote and develop personalized learning – with more likely to come. Now the
UW Bothell ‘Think Tank’ CRPE Aims to Dismantle Public Education
By Amy Frogge and Will Pinkston Many Washingtonians may not realize it, but the University of Washington Bothell is harboring an organization that’s intent on
Parents Rebel Against Summit/Facebook/Chan-Zuckerberg Online Learning Platform
Reprinted with permission from Leonie Haimson, co-chair of the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy. Anyone that has not dealt with this program first hand as a
