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Why Does Bill Gates Mistreat Poor Children?
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| Most people have the perception that The Bill
| and Melinda Gates Foundation is a worthy
| philanthropic organization and maybe it is in
| some ways, but not in education. I wish Bill
| Gates would choose another cause for his
| giving or at least change his approach to
| include and respect educators
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http://greatschoolsforamerica.org/wordpress/?p=97
A Bahia boarding school and the suffering of the head of the Gates Foundation
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| At first the idea of the head of the Gates
| Foundation answering questions from young
| people at a Bahia boarding school for farmers
| made the Gates Keepers nauseous. But we can
| learn a lot about the arrogance of the Gates
| Foundation from this Q and A. Here is a
| privileged rich white heterosexual American
| man who happened to be in the right place at
| the right time answering naive questions from
| 'others'. The worst thing that ever happened
| to Bill was a legal situation of his own
| making. He has little experience of suffering
| like most of the inhabitants of the planet.
| It is no wonder he is the way he is.
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/5/6/4522235.html
Recent:
How Bill Gates Won the Race to the Top, and Why Every Parent Should Boycott Microsoft
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| Every so often we glimpse small stories
| stuck into the back pages of the corporate
| press on the continuing payouts by
| Microsoft for settlements to years-old
| State claims that Gates "had stifled
| competition and broken state antitrust laws
| by overcharging consumers for software and
| computers." California settled for $1.1
| billion, and this story last week shows
| more payouts continuing today, with
| Wisconsin figuring out how it will use $80
| million that Gates promised years ago while
| continuing to deny any wrongdoing.
|
| So bare-knuckled tactics are nothing new to
| the Gates team, as Bill's cadre of crooks
| continue to demonstrate in the big all-in
| bet to help Arne stifle any competition in
| the rigged RTTT, corporate ed reform's
| blueprint for the dismantling of public
| schools and the destruction of the teaching
| profession. Eerily, this is the same
| pattern of philanthro-capitalist bullying
| that Gates has used in other venues to
| restrict any diversity of views within the
| World Health Organization in the fight
| against malaria, as documented by Diane
| Ravitch in her new book:
|
| The chief of malaria research for the World
| Health Organization, Dr. Arata Kochi,
| complained in 2008 that the Gates
| Foundation was stifling a diversity of
| views among scientists, because so many of
| the world's leading scientist in the field
| were "locked up in a 'cartel' with their
| own research funding being linked to those
| of others within the group," making it
| difficult to get independent reviews of
| research. The foundation's decision-making
| process, he charged, was "a closed internal
| process, and as far as can be seen,
| accountable to none other than itself" (p.
| 204).
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http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1291§ion=Article
Book review: 'The Death and Life of the Great American School System,' by Diane Ravitch
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| The damage, she says, has been compounded
| by the well-meaning but ultimately
| misguided efforts of a new group of
| powerful private foundations, of which the
| Seattle-based Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation is the most prominent.
|
| "Never in the history of the United States
| was there a foundation as rich and powerful
| as the Gates Foundation," Ravitch writes.
| "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."
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-bk_school_0425gd.ART.State.Bulldog.4d370b8.html
Updates to the Science Shelf plus a new review - edited with addition
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| NCLB has not been the only factor
| undermining our schools, Ravitch writes. A
| new group of powerful private foundations,
| of which the Seattle-based Bill and Melinda
| Gates Foundation is the most prominent,
| have embraced education reform. The
| contributions of this "Billionaire Boys'
| Club" have also come with heavy doses of
| advocacy.
|
| "Never in the history of the United States
| was there a foundation as rich and powerful
| as the Gates Foundation," Ravitch writes.
| "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."
|
| To its credit, the Foundation has been
| diligent in analyzing the impact of its
| grant money. "In late 2008," Ravitch notes,
| "the Gates Foundation announced that it was
| changing course. Its $2 billion investment
| in new small high schools had not been
| especially successful."
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http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/blog/2040-updates-science-shelf-plus-new-review-edited-addition.html
Diane Ravitch: Charter Schools Won't Save the School System
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2010/04/19/diane-ravitch-charter-schools-wont-save-the-school-system.html
'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#
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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