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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: 3, Interesting) by KibiByte on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:31PM

    by KibiByte (1024) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:31PM (#2019)

    " free job training programs for corporations, in other words"

    Here in California, you pay your employees for training. If not, you get a fat lawsuit like what I'm pursuing against A&D electronics in Ontario/Riverside.

    See, here, we have a progressive mentality. Sure we screw up on a lot of stuff, but the majority of which the country follows comes from or stems from us.

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