The Network for Public Education has created an interactive graphic and a narrative that describe Bill Gates’ experimentation on our nation’s children over the past year. It is a must-see!
The extent of Gates’ meddling, says Carol Burris, is breathtaking; the results are not.
Burris and Anthony Cody write:
In his October 7 speech as he ruminated on how his foundation shaped educational policy and practice for the past fifteen years, Bill Gates spoke of the importance of what he called “high impact” strategies. His speech contained only one acknowledgement of error on his and Melinda’s part – and it was an error of the most innocent sort. He said they had been “naïve” in the way in which they rolled out the Common Core. Apparently they did not anticipate that democracy might get in the way of their plans.
For Bill Gates this has all been a grand experiment, one that he believes he is entitled to conduct on our children, our teachers and our schools. It is astounding that a man, who has no qualifications to guide our nation’s educational system has been allowed, by virtue of his fortune, to meddle in it as he has.
Although he spoke of the importance of continuous learning, (even admitting that the Gates Foundation still had a great deal to learn), Bill Gates did not show any signs of veering from the checkered record of their past 15 years of pushing the United States to adopt his vision of K12 education reform.
We at the Network for Public Education, however, will not let Mr. Gates, his wife or his Foundation off the hook. And so we bring you this special report on the grand experiment of Bill Gates. The breadth and scope of meddling is breathtaking. The evidence of success is not.
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Tried to turn all of education into a binary process. It didn’t work.
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“The Naïve Way”
“We’re naïve”
Means “y’all are saps”
Cuz up our sleeve
And under wraps
Our strategy
Was not for kids
But markets free
Of any bids
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A proper experiment would have required a control group and two very large, random samples of willing participants. Bill Gates’ imposed his misguided will onto 50 million children and 100 million unsuspecting parents. “Experiment” is too good a word for Bill and Melnda Gates’ Common Core reform agenda. Really just “an offer we weren’t allowed to refuse” – Academic Waterboarding is more like it.
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“Testing in the IV League”
The IV League prepares the youth
In intravenous testing booth
The “drip drip drip” of testing prep
Is like a water-torture rep
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Agreed. Labeling so-called education reform as an “experiment” is far too generous.
So-called education reform involves deliberate elimination of knowledge based on experience, and putting the pretense of a market and consumer choice in its place. That’s not scientific. It’s just ideology.
John Dewey would have endorsed real experimentation in education, not necessarily a randomized controlled study, but the kind of experiment carried out by any teacher who tries many approaches. Also, maybe researchers can do randomized controlled experiments about education in some cases.
NYS Teacher, you are right: it isn’t a good idea to perform an experiment on everyone at once. If one really wanted to learn from experiments, one would have to do many experiments, not just one giant one, as if the key to education was in this one thing.
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However, referring to students the “guinea pigs” gives this so-called experiment the correct connotation. Students (and their parents) as unwilling and unsuspecting as lab animals.
Now just imagine water- boarding a guinea pig until it gives you the one “right” answer.
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NYS Teacher: a horrifying but apt description of what the heavyweights and shot callers in the self-styled “education reform” movement mandate and impose on OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN—
“Academic Waterboarding.”
But for Bill Gates and his children: Lakeside School. And just what horrors await the denizens of said location?
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Lakeside Upper School students are set to take the stage for this year’s play: “Pronoun” by British-Canadian playwright Evan Placey. Performances, which are free of charge, will be held Thursday, Nov. 19 and Friday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. in St. Nicholas Auditorium.
The play explores the relationships among a group of teenagers when one of them comes out as transgender. “Pronoun” was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival in Britain and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
A full cast and crew, led by guest director Michael Place, a founding member of Seattle’s Washington Ensemble Theater, began the set design and rehearsal process in September. Members of the cast performed a short scene from the play at the Northwest Association of Independent School’s annual conference, held at Lakeside this year.
“Every rehearsal needs 100% commitment,” said Meg R. ’16, the lead in the play. “It mostly requires energy – emotional, mental, physical. It’s exhausting. But it’s worth it.”
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Link: http://www.lakesideschool.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=1007188
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“Meddling” is also too generous a descriptor. The outcome was a takeover.
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Reblogged this on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé and commented:
For Bill Gates this has all been a grand experiment, one that he believes he is entitled to conduct on our children, our teachers and our schools—what’s called venture philanthropy at its worst.
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The fact that they can talk about their experiments on OUR children that way reveals that Bill Gates, and probably his wife , is a psychopath.
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Network’s chronology makes what has occurred, clear. In the second version of the chronology, two additions are appropriate. First, Bill Gates’ involvement with Capital Impact Partners, a spawn of the government-created National Cooperative Bank. And, secondly, Microsoft’s announced deal with Pearson to develop curriculum for copyrighted Common Core.
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I didn’t realize Gates had been at it since the Bush administration. Thank you for the info. I really wish I wasn’t so busy — I would love to dig deeper. For example, did Gates start meddling in education before or after he tacitly/tactically disavowed his belief in targeted, IQ based human population control?
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I’m sorry, “targeted, IQ based” is conjecture. Only his formerly stated belief in population control is fact.
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All Gates has is money plus entitlement. He’s SAD and so are his non-education ideas. He needs a life.
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“Bedeviled by Reform”
Experimentation on your kid
Is what the school “reformer” did
Sans review and sans consent
The school “reform” was Devil-sent
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The “sans consent” is not a minor point.
Is it legal to experiment with children “sans” parental “consent”?
Bill Gates may want to walk back his “experiment” talk before he is hit with a major (50 million) class action suit.
Showing harm/damages would be easy.
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Yep, the reformers cut out the children’s brains, hearts and kidneys in addition to lopping of legs and arms, and then sewed them back up. When all those children failed to thrive and fly around like superman, the reformers blamed it on the teachers without admitting that the teachers weren’t anywhere near the operating room when the reformers started cutting into the children.
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