"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."
(Score: 5, Interesting) by r00t on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:42PM
B&M invested $218M into polio immunizations worldwide, great, but then dumped millions (~$400M) into their oil magnate buddies who blanket some of the same areas with pollution levels unheard of in the US or UK. Funny how you can be "worried" about protecting kids against Polio, but then fund the refineries polluting the air these same kids breathe: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0, 2533850.story [latimes.com]