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[Who needs to spend money on PR when you can use teachers as PR agents that taxpayers pay for?]
School of the future focuses on the basics
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| The world was watching in 2006 when the
| Microsoft-designed School of the Future
| opened in Philadelphia and attempted to
| reform education.
|
| Despite having four principals, curriculum
| overhauls, and student technology gaps, the
| school graduated its first senior class
| last week, with every graduate having plans
| for institutions of higher learning.
|
| "This isn't a school about technology, this
| is a school about redefining the norm for
| urban education," said Mary Cullinane,
| director of innovation for Microsoft
| Education, who is also the liaison to the
| school.
`----
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/21/microsoft.high.school/
Microsoft 'School of the Future' in Philly finally in a groove?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-19-microsoft-school_N.htm
LAUSD board may fill No. 2 position
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| The Los Angeles Unified school board today
| could appoint a Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation director as the district's No.
| 2 man, possibly setting him up to succeed
| schools chief Ramon Cortines when his
| contract expires.
|
| The board is scheduled to vote in closed
| session on the appointment of John Deasy,
| the deputy director of education at the
| Gates Foundation, where he has worked since
| 2008.
`----
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_15347043
Board OKs LAUSD budget with thousands of layoffs
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_15354864
Daily Dose - School protests, new deputy superintendent and everybody cut FOOTLOOSE!
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/all-things-considered-alex-cohen/2010/06/22/daily-dose-school-protests-new-deputy-superintende/
LA school board OKs $12B budget with 2,500 layoffs
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/22/state/n131841D91.DTL&type=health
Raytheon CEO calls for more tech education
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| Raytheon, which is based in Waltham, now
| commits 60 percent of its charitable giving
| to activities that boost math and science
| education, Swanson said. The company is
| working with the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation to sponsor research on ways to
| increase the number of technically trained
| graduates. Raytheon engineers have
| developed a mathematical model to simulate
| the performance of the nation's schools, in
| an effort to predict which reforms are most
| likely to succeed.
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http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/06/raytheon_ceo_is.html
MANVILLE: Dear Manville: âNoâ ... signed, Bill Gates
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| And, even though the foundation
| âregretfullyâ rejected Dr. Rubertoâs
| request, none other than Bill Gates himself
| wrote Dr. Ruberto to acknowledge the
| foundationâs decision. While the
| foundationâs mission includes âimproving
| high school education in the United
| States,â according to its website, its
| focus has been on classroom and instruction
| programs.
`----
http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2010/06/24/the_manville_news/news/doc4c2378f454328119737205.txt
Commercial propaganda in the classroom:
Free Office 2010 Classroom Posters Available from Microsoft
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| Schools interested in adopting Office 2010,
| can also grab no less than seven free
| posters from Microsoft, to display in
| classrooms. Microsoft Education teams in
| countries around the world can send the
| posters via snail mail to schools, provided
| that they are contacted to do so. In
| addition, the resources are also available
| for download, although not from an official
| Microsoft site.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-Office-2010-Classroom-Posters-Available-from-Microsoft-145048.shtml
Refining the PR:
Microsoft and Mediabrands Announce Advertising Coalition Led by 4A's
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| Today Microsoft Advertising and Mediabrands
| announced developments on the Media
| Operations Management System (M.O.M.S.),
| which is described as "an agency agnostic,
| enterprise-level architecture to connect
| the marketing ecosystem."
`----
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/06/23/microsoft-and-mediabrands-announce-advertising-coalition-led-by-4as
Recent:
Obama's Right-Wing School Reform
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| My sense is that it has a lot to do with
| the administrationâs connections to the
| Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation.
| Although both are usually portrayed as
| liberal or at least Democratic, their
| funding priorities have merged with those
| of the very conservative Walton Family
| Foundation. I explain this curious power
| elite in a chapter of my book called âThe
| Billionaire Boys Club.â
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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/jun/10/obamas-right-wing-school-reform/
How time changes things
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| And at one point the school received a
| major donation from the Gates Foundation,
| because a savvy parent who discovered that
| Bill Gates had attended View Ridge many
| years ago, and had used that as the basis
| for a successful appeal for a sizeable
| grant. Teachers and parents were working
| together to make a better school. Things
| were good, G-O-O-D, good. HUNH!!!
`----
http://moesmisadventures.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-time-changes-things.html
Gates grant provides a boost to Hillsborough's teacher recruitment
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| District officials say their $100 million
| Gates grant also is helping them figure
| out which places â education schools,
| states, or even regions â produce their
| most effective teachers.
|
| [...]
|
| Thanks to the Gates money, statistician
| James Goode will now work full time to
| analyze the performance of such new hires.
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/gates-grant-provides-a-boost-to-hillsboroughs-teacher-recruitment/1103736
Pittsburgh Teachers, Schools Hail 5-Year Contract
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| Called Empowering Effective Teachers, the
| plan was the basis for a proposal made
| last year to the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation. The foundation approved the
| plan and has given the district $40
| million for efforts to improve teacher
| quality.
|
| The district and union worked on the Gates
| proposal together, and rolled that into
| contract talks.
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http://cbs3.com/wireapnewspa/Pittsburgh.teachers.schools.2.1752041.html
Public officials to discuss educational standards
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| The Council of State Governments is
| assisting the effort, with financial
| support from the Bill & Melinda Gates
| Foundation.
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http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=20274
Major Foundation Gets Set to Open a Charter School
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| While other major philanthropies, such as
| the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates
| Foundation and the Walton Family
| Foundation of Bentonville, Ark., have
| given millions of dollars to charter
| schools, it is believed that the Kauffman
| Foundation is the largest and most
| prominent private foundation to have
| decided to run its own charter school. And
| though other organizations with
| âfoundationâ in their names have started
| charter schools, staff members from
| national charter school organizations and
| philanthropic organizations couldnât point
| to any that are grantmaking foundations,
| as is the Kauffman Foundation.
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/06/16/36foundation.h29.html?tkn=PXSFQs0lPr4GBsAmkwncwKIKP%2BBFOQ%2BykyFo&cmp=clp-edweek
Microsoft 'School of the Future' in Philly finally in a groove?
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| When the Microsoft-designed School of the
| Future opened, the facility was a paragon
| of contemporary architecture, with a green
| roof, light-filled corridors and the
| latest classroom technology, all housed in
| a dazzling white modern building.
|
| It might as well have been a fishbowl:
| Educators and media from around the world
| watched to see whether Microsoft could
| reform public education through innovation
| and technology.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-19-microsoft-school_N.htm
First class graduates from 'School of the Future'
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7499670
Microsoft High School's First Graduating Class Has a Bright Future
http://www.fastcompany.com/1660101/the-first-graduating-class-of-microsofts-high-school-has-an-extremely-bright-future
Microsoft High Schoolâs First Graduating Class Has a Bright Future
http://news.yourolivebranch.org/2010/06/15/microsoft-high-schools-first-graduating-class-has-a-bright-future/
Microsoft's Philly high school traveled rocky road
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| Microsoft's liaison to the school, Mary
| Cullinane, says the school has overcome
| its early challenges.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iA47R-ZEfVjcb2iTbZ0GEGr28zCQD9GBL0U00
Top Microsoft executive shares company views on state issues
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| Education, livability, and economic ties
| with Asia will determine the long-term
| success of Washington, according to
| Microsoft's top public-policy man.
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http://www.seattlepi.com/sound/421930_sound96526879.html
PPS and the philanthro-capitalists
,----[ Quote ]
| The free market approach to enrollment and
| funding is a demonstrable failure in
| Portland, when measured by access to
| educational opportunity. Unless the
| district is willing to significantly reduce
| opportunity for the white middle class,
| thereâs no way they can pay for equity of
| opportunity without balancing enrollment,
| that is, by curtailing school choice. This
| is a significant element of the high school
| plan. With it, the district appears to be
| forging a path independent of current
| trends pushed by Gates, at least for high
| schools.
|
| But the district appears unwilling to apply
| the same lesson to middle grades.
|
| Sara Allanâs contention that itâs not the
| structure of the school that matters, but
| what goes on in the classroom, also closely
| parrots the current line being sold by
| Phillips, now head of education for the
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
|
| Phillips was the keynote speaker at the
| Council of The Great City Schools
| conference held in Portland last month,
| attended by Allan and quite a few of her
| administrative colleagues. In her speech,
| Phillips promoted merit pay for teachers,
| the latest policy thrust of Gates.
|
| While superintendent in Portland, Philips
| was responsible for both the transition to
| K-8 schools and the âsmall schoolsâ
| initiative, funded largely by the Gates
| foundation, which dismantled every
| comprehensive high school in Portland
| serving majority non-white students, and
| split them into rigid âacademies.â These
| academies forced students to choose a
| narrow field of study as freshmen, and
| didnât allow students to take electives
| offered in other academies in the same
| building.
|
| [...]
|
| Gatesâ quiet partner
|
| The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has
| grown to be the dominant voice in the
| national education dialogue, heavily
| influencing the federal education policy of
| both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But
| even as PPS appears to be taking a non-
| Gates path on high schools, the district
| continues to be enamored with Gatesâ
| biggest private-sector education policy
| ally: Eli Broadâs education foundation.
|
| [...]
|
| âStudent performance,â entirely measured by
| standardized test scores, correlates highly
| to poverty. Broadâs scheme would almost
| certainly assure that teachers in poor and
| minority communities would make less than
| their colleagues in wealthier schools, only
| worsening the achievement gap. This puts
| the lie to Broadâs (and Gatesâ) stated
| mission of closing that gap.
|
| [...]
|
| âStudent performance,â entirely measured by
| standardized test scores, correlates highly
| to poverty. Broadâs scheme would almost
| certainly assure that teachers in poor and
| minority communities would make less than
| their colleagues in wealthier schools, only
| worsening the achievement gap. This puts
| the lie to Broadâs (and Gatesâ) stated
| mission of closing that gap.
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http://ppsequity.org/2009/11/30/pps-and-the-philanthro-capitalists/
Related:
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
Gates Foundationâs Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agencyâs policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
Gates in charge of education?
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| Since when was this country's educational system run by Bill
| Gates and his foundation? When exactly did he and those he's
| hired become the top educational experts in the country?
|
| As far as I can tell this (like much else) has to do with who
| has enough money to boss other people around. There are
| supposed to be other values in a democracy.
|
| And the irony of the man who was sued by the federal
| government for a monopoly now endorsing competition in public
| education hasn't escaped me, either.
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http://who-cester.blogspot.com/2009/12/gates-in-charge-of-education.html
Gates Foundation cash wields influence
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| The Gates Foundation is offering up to
| $250,000 apiece to states that want to apply
| for $5 billion in federal grants to help
| reform our nation's school systems.
|
| [...]
|
| The Associated Press story noted that there is
| a joke going around that says the real
| secretary of education is Bill Gates. To us,
| that's no joke.
`----
http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20091028/OPINION/910280304/Gates-Foundation-cash-wields-influence
Editorial: School reform the Gates way
,----[ Quote ]
| The Gates approach may be radical, but in
| Memphis and beyond the circumstances call for
| a non-traditional approach and as much
| innovation as the system can muster.
`----
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/oct/27/editorial-school-reform-the-gates-way/
Gates in charge of education?
,----[ Quote ]
| Since when was this country's educational system run by Bill
| Gates and his foundation? When exactly did he and those he's
| hired become the top educational experts in the country?
|
| As far as I can tell this (like much else) has to do with who
| has enough money to boss other people around. There are
| supposed to be other values in a democracy.
|
| And the irony of the man who was sued by the federal
| government for a monopoly now endorsing competition in public
| education hasn't escaped me, either.
`----
http://who-cester.blogspot.com/2009/12/gates-in-charge-of-education.html
Gates Foundation cash wields influence
,----[ Quote ]
| The Gates Foundation is offering up to
| $250,000 apiece to states that want to apply
| for $5 billion in federal grants to help
| reform our nation's school systems.
|
| [...]
|
| The Associated Press story noted that there is
| a joke going around that says the real
| secretary of education is Bill Gates. To us,
| that's no joke.
`----
http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20091028/OPINION/910280304/Gates-Foundation-cash-wields-influence
Editorial: School reform the Gates way
,----[ Quote ]
| The Gates approach may be radical, but in
| Memphis and beyond the circumstances call for
| a non-traditional approach and as much
| innovation as the system can muster.
`----
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/oct/27/editorial-school-reform-the-gates-way/
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