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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: 4, Interesting) by Zoot on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:59PM
Really they need to stop granting Phd's in Education I think.
Our 1st grader's "Reading Street" system of books is full of meta-rubbish telling you all about the system, and there's an excessive amount of stuff like explaining the genre of the current story ("Realistic Fiction", etc.) Does a 1st grader really have to care how some academics classify a story?
And after the stories they have a set of "Critical Thinking" questions which are very often ludicrously bad.
And yeah, there are "Meet the Author" sections which prominently advertise the author or illustrator's other works.
They're colorful, there's good variety, but overall they're way too full of themselves and if you took out the meta-educational rubbish they'd be about half their current length.
Z.