Dev.SN
Dev.SN ♥ developers
https://dev.soylentnews.org/

Title    Backlash for Gates Foundation's Education Plans
Date    Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:27PM
Author    mattie_p
Topic   
from the corporate-sponsorship dept.
https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/18/1812205

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."

Links
  1. "inBloom" - https://www.inbloom.org/faq
  2. "encouraging the outsourcing of US Education" - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/11-10
  3. "cited by RMS today" - http://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#17_February_2014_(Gates_Foundation's_plan_for_redesigning_education_in_US)
  4. "corporate logos and promotional materials" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/06/18/the-common-cores-fundamental-trouble/
© Copyright 2024 - Soylent News, All Rights Reserved

printed from Dev.SN, Backlash for Gates Foundation's Education Plans on 2024-05-14 11:16:46