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Backlash for Gates Foundation's Education Plans

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the corporate-sponsorship dept.
jcd writes:

"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary backer for the inBloom educational grading and service (which also acts as a platform for third-party applications), is catching flak for its role in encouraging the outsourcing of US Education. The article (cited by RMS today) argues that though the Common Core is a scary new concept that takes power away from state and local school governance, the real danger is allowing corporate enterprises to have so much control over our classrooms. The Washington Post also reports a case where Pearson included corporate logos and promotional materials inside its test booklets."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:40PM

    by TrumpetPower! (590) <ben@trumpetpower.com> on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:40PM (#1944) Homepage

    Simply being the first to post on a subject is meaningless. Any monkey can do it.

    Being not only the first to post, but to have something meaningful to contribute...now that's a challenge, and one that I would love to see the membership of Soylent News embrace.

    Cheers,

    b&

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by unitron on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:11PM

    by unitron (70) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:11PM (#2009) Journal

    He's part of the stealth ninja moderation testing program, helping to insure that downmodding is just as thoroughly tested as upmodding without the risk of something being downmodded that was worthy of upmodding or remaining at the default.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by KibiByte on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:29PM

    by KibiByte (1024) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:29PM (#2016)

    I try to add my good two cents in. Sometimes I cannot, and thus these testing trolls pop up.

    Let them pop up, it helps tune our mod algorithm.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by koreanbabykilla on Tuesday February 18 2014, @08:51PM

    by koreanbabykilla (968) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @08:51PM (#2052)

    I got an on-topic first post yesterday. I was pretty happy about it.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:02PM (#2058)

      Obviously you do not intend to continue that trend, as this is neither first nor relevant.

      • (Score: 1) by koreanbabykilla on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:40PM

        by koreanbabykilla (968) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:40PM (#3016)

        No, I didn't even mean to get the one I got. Also, eat a bag of dicks, this comment was indeed relevant to what I replied to.