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'The Death and Life of the Great American School System': An indictment
of standardized testing and school choice
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| NCLB's damage has been compounded, Ravitch
| argues, by the well-meaning but ultimately
| misguided efforts of a new group of
| powerful private foundations, including the
| Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates
| Foundation. This "Billionaire Boys Club,"
| she writes, has overstepped traditional
| foundation boundaries.
|
| "... Never in the history of the United
| States was there a foundation as rich and
| powerful as the Gates Foundation. Never was
| there one that sought to steer state and
| national policy in education. And never
| before was there a foundation that gave
| grants to almost every major think tank and
| advocacy group in the field of education,
| leaving almost no one willing to criticize
| its vast power and unchecked influence."
|
| The author believes that though the Gates
| Foundation's intentions have been good, its
| size, resources and influence have dampened
| robust debate on education changes.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2011607597_br18ravitch.html
1998 Bill Gates: I canât figure out why Jobs is even trying to be Apple CEO; he knows he canât win
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24748/
98 Bill Gates On Steve Jobs: He Knows He Cant Win
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/32396/98_Bill_Gates_On_Steve_Jobs:_He_Knows_He_Can_t_Win.html
Bill Gates
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| Bill Gates ranks as one of the wealthiest
| and most influential people in history, yet
| he's equally controversial. Is he an
| example of the American dream, a cutthroat
| businessman who has redeemed himself
| through philanthropy or a career criminal?
| This article presents a basic biography,
| then adds opinions, theories and logic in
| an effort to promote discussion and
| discover the truth.
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http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/bill-gates/1i6e04re3w2kp/4#
Recent:
Neo-liberalism: The Leveraging of Charter Schools with Public and Private Funds
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| Unquestionably, the huge increase in charters
| has included a massive growth in private and
| philanthropic start-up monies to support them,
| as well as the growth of a burgeoning
| educational industry to distribute the grants
| and sell âeducational products and servicesâ
| while receiving tax dollars for their efforts.
| Yet for those wondering aabout âneo-
| liberalismâ and what it means in this context
| the answer is clear. None of this could have
| been done without the deregulation, favorable
| legal legislation and govern,ment intervention
| in the market. What we are seeing is the
| transfer of public funds into the private
| troughs of the handwringing elite who clothe
| their true agendas in the name of âchildrenâ.
| Unfortunately, this is true all over the
| nation now, and is being fueled by Arne Duncan
| and the billions of stimulus monies he uses to
| extort cities and states. All of this is now
| wrapped up in the noble lie and pious fraud of
| providing charter school innovation as
| competitive model that can raise the standards
| and levels of education. Is it true? Of course
| not, that is all sophistic rubbish and the
| alchemists that coin it know it, as do those
| of us who oppose it.
|
| [...]
|
| Charter benefactors have a vested economic and
| social interest in seeing the charter
| experiment work for it is profitable, and for
| this they will donate tremendous amounts of
| capital to help establish new charters in
| their attempt to dismantle traditional public
| schools. It is called priming the pump and
| with the government on its knees it is
| working. Itâs a great business opportunity as
| well as acts as good public personae for the
| pirates of Wall Street. They understand that
| charters provide a unique business opportunity
| for many financial players in the educational
| entrepreneurial industry, their buddies and
| cronies, and they also know that left by
| itself the charter movement would not be able
| to come up with the seed money, the start-up
| costs needed due to the way public funding for
| schools is presently confabulated. Yet
| ironically, much of the âsuccessâ of the
| charter movement is economic success and comes
| from both a toxic mixture of government as
| well as the private sector funds. For this is
| part and parcel of the new neo-liberal
| educational disorder that is now pillaging and
| prevailing over the wholesale dismantlement of
| public education in the United States. All in
| the name of the âkidsâ.
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http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/neo-liberalism-the-leveraging-of-charter-schools-with-public-and-private-funds/
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