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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, Informative) by slash2phar on Tuesday February 18 2014, @08:03PM

    by slash2phar (623) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @08:03PM (#2038)

    None of the referenced articles actually contain examples of the claim that "Pearson included corporate logos and promotional materials inside its test booklets". I eventually found the source here [nypost.com].

    "Teachers and students said yesterday's multiple-choice section of the eighth-grade tests name-dropped at least a handful of companies or products - including Mug Root Beer, LEGO and that company's smart robots, Mindstorms."

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