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Showing posts with label Bill Gates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Gates. Show all posts
Friday, December 2, 2016

Buying the So-called Ed Press: Bill and Melinda Drop a Half Million on Chalkbeat

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Purpose: to inform low-income parents and parents of color in Newark, Detroit, and New York about K-12 education Amount: $525,042...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Bill and Melinda Gates' Faux Theories Exposed: Paving The Road to Hell — And Other Gates Foundation Initiatives

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As Bill Gates sees many of his health and education initiatives go up in smoke -- oh, if only those billions had gone into reducing class...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Acievement First Concentration Camp Policies Supported by Gates Foundation

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Actually, I would describe Achievement First more as a southern plantation circa 1850. But no one should be surprised that the Gates Foundat...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Bill Gates Tells Us Why His High School Was a Great Learning Environment

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Hi Norm, I'm a regular reader.  I wrote the piece below for a chat board: http://www. democraticunderground.com/ 1002807175 &...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Will UFT Renounce This Deal? Randi on the Board: Confidential Student And Teacher Data To Be Provided To LLC Run By Gates and Murdoch

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UPDATED: 11PM - SEE FOLLOW-UP on Norms Notes: How the feds are tracking your kid I'm bringing this up again. This article by Leonie ...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

"No Excuses" Bill Gates Makes Excuses for His Ed Deform Failures

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Do I need to remind you of the rousing reception our own 800 plus Unity Caucus delegates to the AFT convention last year in Seattle gave Bil...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Gates Report Touting "Value-Added" Reached Wrong Conclusion

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Gee, expect an honest accounting from anything associated with Bill Gates? This comes from Susan Ohanian and is worth reading. Also check ou...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Value-Minus for Bill Gates

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David Pogue writes on tech in Thursday's NY Times: With the money Microsoft has spent on failed efforts to design hardware, you could ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Oh, Valerie!

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Every day I check my fabulous blog roll. I look up and an hour (or more) has passed and the item I was going to blog about has turned to mus...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Commentary on Mike Winerip Column - Updated

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Update Aug.12, 8am: Susan Ohanian gets into the people running Teach Plus. Mike Winerip's must read regular Monday ed column - this on...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

CORE and Unity on Charter Schools - Where the Rubber Meets the Road

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Chicago-based Lee Sustar, who I got to hang with at the press table at the AFT convention, does a penetrating analysis of the AFT convention...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Bill Gates at the AFT - 1984 - UPDATED

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UPDATE: July 17 2pm This comment from TFA Friend ... This comes from 1984? Wow, I wasn't even born yet. -- made me think I have to d...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

12th Russian in Spy Probe Was Microsoft Employee

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Truth stranger than fiction? You just can't make this stuff up. Or can you?
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

If the teachers at the convention had any idea how much money Gates has put into developing non-unionized charter schools

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There has been much ado about something over the Gates appearance at the AFT convention, which Ed Notes covered along with Chicago-based Sub...
Monday, July 12, 2010

The Underbelly: Teacher Pay Linked to Student Evaluations

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" If I were a veteran teacher in Hillsborough, I would take to the hills, now!" Leonie Haimson There was much talk and exciteme...
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AFT Gates- California teacher chastises Randi for actions at Gates Protests

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AFT Gates- Randi chastised for actions by California teacher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSSSYQuIcs
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Video - Bill Gates at the AFT: Bringing in a Trojan Horse

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Who is the real Trojan Horse? Here is a rough video of low quality I put together very quickly. First a small demo outside before the speech...
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