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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: 2, Insightful) by Sir William on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:49AM

    by Sir William (173) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:49AM (#2152)

    The common core was developed by a cooperative of the states. You may make the argument that it takes away local control, but not state control as the states developed it and each state chooses to adopt it or not.

    In a separate issue is local control good? Do we have local control of medical standards or do we let people who study medicine and are educated about the field make decisions about what is best practice.

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