Mercedes Schneider received a copy of the Media Matters report on the corporate rightwing assault on public education, as did I and many others. She had the same reaction that I did. How can you list the rightwing think tanks, corporate groups, and foundations that are promoting privatization and forget to mention the three biggest funders of rightwing attacks on public education: Gates, Walton, and Broad?
There were some other glaring omissions. Stand for Children and Parent Revolution were there, but not Democrats for Education Reform, which funds candidates who support the rightwing agenda.
It seemed fishy. Mercedes did some digging and learned that Media Matters is led by journalist David Brock. Brock is active in the Clinton campaign. It must have been a political decision to omit the three biggest funders of privatization and anti-union policies. More than 90% of the nation’s 7,000 or so charter schools are non-union. The expansion of charters is an effective way to break the nation’s largest public unions. The funders know that.
After more digging, Mercedes concluded that the omissions were not accidental. I decided to trash the post I had written. But I was glad to see some acknowledgement–even if partial–for the struggle we are engaged in to save public education.
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Fishy indeed. The Media Matters report lists Bellwether, which was co-founded by Kim Smith. Bellwether rec’d Gates money. Smith also co-founded New Schools Venture Fund, which rec’d $22 million from Gates. NSVF’s goal, “To develop charter management organizations that produce a diverse supply of different brands on a large scale”. She is also the founder of Pahara Aspen Institute, which rec’d Gates funding. Pahara promotes privatization of public schools. The Aspen Institute’s “Senior Congressional Education Staff Network” is funded by Gates. Duncan’s chief of staff was a former Gates Foundation
employee.
The Media Matters “story”, is like an investigation that concluded the people who took down the Twin Towers, were Afghans.
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They all share funders, staff, former government officials and they all push the same themes at the same time.
I don’t think it’s a Grand Conspiracy- I think it’s complete and utter capture which is depressingly common and ordinary.
It reminds me of the push to deregulate the financial sector in the 1990’s. Everyone agreed on that too. They all treated Alan Greenspan like he was some oracle from on high.
It’s a mistake they make again and again- “bipartisan” = smart.
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But Chiara, those folks are the bestestest and brightestest that the US has to offer, just like McNamara and his “wonder” crew in “guiding” the Viet Nam war.
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It really was laughably partisan.
The omission is to protect Democrats. We all must continue to pretend there’s some difference between “liberal” and “conservative” ed reform.
I don’t know about other states but President Obama is identical to John Kasich on public education in Ohio.
They’re all pushing vouchers now as the Next Frontier in Choice. That tiny difference will be gone in one more election cycle. If you had told me 20 years ago that both Republicans and Democrats would adopt the public education views of Barry Goldwater I would not have believed you, but here we are!
There is literally no choice. Voters get this lockstep, insular “free market” agenda or nothing. They think they’re compromising if they allow any public schools to continue to exist. That’s how far we’ve gone-they’re willing to admit there MIGHT be a role for public schools in these grand privatization plans.
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Media Matters couldn’t find the money Gates spent on corporatization and privatization? For God’s sake, it’s a $1 billion dollars, fully displayed on the internet.
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“I don’t think it’s a Grand Conspiracy.”
Chiara, the name for the concurrent and coordinated PR blasts from the same rotating networks of groups is called “collective impact” advocacy, policy planning, action.
This is the “theory of action” being used by major foundations and public officials when they are on the same page about anything.
STRIVE, for example is a network of states intent on changing the governance of schools and linking the programs of civic and social services to provide custom playlists of learning opportunities, aided by mobile apps, on-line courses or enrollments. STRIVE hopes to see each metro area developing a “backbone” of community leaders able and willing to sustain this constellation of “opportunities to improve outcomes for children and youth living in poverty, in a continuum from cradle to career.” STRIVE was spawned in Cincinnati, an offshoot of KnowledgeWorks.
There are other collective impact initiatives with different brand names. One of these is Harvard’s Education Redesign Lab, working with mayors who have authority over schools, along with organized social service groups, business leaders and so. Other collective impact initiatives are housed at Stanford, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins.
Most retain a focus on schools, but some are connected to social impact initiatives–so-called pay for success program, that can yield profits for investors.
Many of these programs are in the tradition of moderate to large-scale planning programs, especially of the late 19th century and twentieth century. They do not address the issue of poverty. They distract attention from it by programs intended to “mitigate the effects of poverty,” especially as these are known to influence learning in school.
The Gates foundation has pushed other foundations and funded hundreds of non-profits to push for “a collective impact,” on education. The Common Core is a noteworthy example, also the sustained hype for technology and so-called personalized instructional systems delivered by technologies, for anywhere any time learning. There can be no doubt that the proliferation of charter schools, and weak laws governing them is also the result of collective impact activities impact(or collaboration, or collusion, not just effective lobbying).
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Media Matters is a David Brock/pro-Hillary creation. Big money is her friend.
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By the photo in Mercedes’ article it appears that Brock is an Al Sharton wannabe!
(Sorry, just couldn’t help myself on that one.)
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Hillary’s campaign manager is John Podesta, a long time supporter of the Common Core, high stakes testing and charters. If you can judge a person by the company she keeps, what does this say about AFT endorsed Hillary? https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/hillary-clintons-campaign-manager-is-a-longtime-corporate-education-reformer/
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AMEN!
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Arne Duncan, Obama’s privatizing Secretary of Education went to work for the Emerson Collective, the organization of Laurene Powell Jobs. Given Media Matters reporting, Wikipedia should change Mrs. Steve Jobs’ party affiliation from Democrat to corporate right-wing.
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So TRUE!
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Has anyone from the Obama ed department gone on to work for any org that actually supports public schools?
Looking at the exodus one no longer wonders why public schools have fared so poorly under this President. That entire administration was stacked with members of The Club.
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As John Awbrey said,
“It’s all about the KIPPs”
It’s all about the KIPPs
And not about the kids
It’s all about the trips
And all about the bids
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Poet
Always, just right, yet extrordinary.
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Media Matters made Gates go away, with the stroke of a pen. We can all hope it becomes self-fulfilling. If not, Media Matters’ legacy is “its underwear showing”, for all to see, forever.
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It’s reached the point where it’s silly. The Koch brothers are evil incarnate yet the Walton heirs are above reproach.
It’s just nonsense. It’s completely incoherent on nearly every level. Hillary Clinton will have to tie herself up in so many knots she may be unable to stand by the end of this. They’re all running against Obama’s trade deal in Ohio. The problem is OBAMA ran against Obama’s trade deal. It’s to the point where it’s insulting.
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And what’s beneath that underwear ain’t pretty!
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The only journalists you can trust these days are the ones who don’t get paid for it.
Unfortunately, that’s not a sustainable model of journalism.
“The Pressititutes”
The presstitutes
Dress up in suits
And work at Media Matters
While journalist
Is simply dissed
Cuz truth is not what matters
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It’s not them. They get paid next to nothing for working at local and city newspapers and they’re treated as poorly as any other group of middle class workers in the US. The reporters who work for online outfits are forming unions. Like everyone else, they need to get paid. This “gig economy” thing doesn’t work real well for those without a trust fund. They all hit 30 and realized they need health insurance and a steady paycheck to make their student loan payments 🙂
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Multi-millionaire cable TV personalities don’t represent “journalists” anymore than Michelle Rhee represents your average working teacher.
It’s as skewed toward big bucks at the tippy-top with crumbs at the bottom as any other US “sector”.
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In my opinion, what is happening is a version of what William Black has termed “control fraud”, where the head of the organization creates an environment that is conducive to the fraud that they wish to perpetrate on the public. The folks who don’t go along with that are either “let go” or put in positions where they can’t cause trouble.
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According to the book I read on philanthropy, the difference between philanthropy at the time of Carnegie and Rockefeller and now is that 100 years ago, they were hiding the possible benefits of the donations for the donor, while nowadays, they openly talk about philanthropy as an investment.
My feeling is that this new “openness” has been backfiring, so the donors and the true purpose of the donations are going into hiding again.
This hiding makes no sense since even 100 years ago people could figure out the true intent, and nowadays it’s a much simpler issue via the internet and other ways for quick search and communication.
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WOW. A perfect description of my own district and each school/administrator now running our reform-fanatic programs.
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Unlike teaching, journalism actually is facing a crisis of professionalism.
It’s hard to deny this in the face of overwhelming evidence. Perhaps the best example of this is that nearly every mainstream journalism outlet simply unquestioningly parroted the Bush administration claims about Iraqi WMD that were used to justify the invasion of Iraq. That was not an accident. Dissenting viewpoints (if there were any) were simply squelched.
Unless the profession as a whole acknowledges their crisis and takes steps to address it, real journalism will cease to exist.
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Chiara- It would be nice to know if Pam Vogel, herself, submitted a thorough article which was hacked by the Media Matters senior editor-
how much Media Matters pays her, her working conditions, etc.
David Sirota reported on an article by The Center for Public Integrity about conferences for judges, who hear pension cases. John Arnold’s name/involvement was left on the editing floor. The editor said it was a space constraint.
In no connection, what so ever, John Arnold’s “philanthropy” to the Center is a matter of record.
It’s still puzzling to me why, the PR arm of Columbia Teachers College reported the Waltons, as funders of Wolhstetter’s December paper (“embargoed”) but, not the only other funder that Wolhstetter thanked, in writing, for the paper’s funding, John Arnold.
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This may be the new style: hide the funders. I suspect, it’s because the billionaires have a bad rep, so if they appear on an organization’s webpage explicitly as donors, people immediately form an opinion about the organization.
Here is an organization which denies that they are pro-charter and they don’t list their supporters. At least I couldn’t find them on their webpage. I am sure, though, the researchers here will find it out quickly.
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I sort of love the Kinder Gentler ed reform because although they will never admit it’s an admission that they have to “rebrand”.
The Zuckerbergs were careful to include a public school district among the tens of charters. They’re “agnostics!” 🙂
I listened to Duncan at the charter school forum- he REALLY doesn’t want to talk about the Obama Agenda, which consisted entirely of charter schools and testing. It was comical. They invite him to the cheerleading session for charter schools and he avoids…charter schools.
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It looks like Gates, the Waltons, Broad, etc. have been anointed appointed to the board of education and no longer have to be considered mere contributors.
I read yesterday that Hillary’s choice for Secretary of Education is expected to be Linda Darling-Hammond for whom I have great respect. If only Obama had stuck with her in 2008, we might not be in the mess we’re in. Some friends have mentioned concerns that LDM is leaning towards the reformers but I’m convinced that she could help put public education back on the table. Of course I could be wrong and Clinton could pull an Obama and go for King or some other pretender with money backing.
I am actually more concerned about Gates’ actions and results in Washington State. Clearly the voters there don’t want the charters. The Supreme Court ruled charters unconstitutional. Then, Gates and moneyed friends simply bought a new law to allow lottery money to go to charters. I used to consider Gates a man with at least good intentions but I can no longer see any inkling of good in him when it comes to education. I also know that Linda Darling-Hammond works with Gates but I’m hanging on the respect that has grown through years of reading her work.
I would love to know how many jobs might have been created with the money these worshiped billionaires have spent on buying legislators for reform.
Mary
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Not sure about LDM. See her research interest at
https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/ldh
I bet she is chosen by Hillary to continue the reform stuff.
Academic Restructuring
Adolescent Development
Assessment By Teachers
Assessment Policies
Charter Schools
Credentialing / Preparation
Curriculum and Instruction
Educational Policy
Educational Equity
Evaluation
High-stakes Testing
Policy Analysis and Implementation
Professional / Staff Development
Research Design
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
School Finance Reform
School Leadership
School Redesign
School Reform Issues
Standard Setting
Standards
Teacher Education and Certification
Teacher Labor Markets
Teachers and Teachers’ Unions
Testing
Urban Education
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Based on the numbers, Gates’ money could have probably bought a maximum of 30,000 positions (temporary), devoted to ed reform, which is an efficient use of money for a potential $500 billion market.
If anyone thinks Gates’ other activities are well-intentioned, they should read about Cornell and GMO’s, the World Bank and Bridge International Academies, Gates/Capital Impact Partners/Aspire/Reed Hastings, etc.
Gates image is well-crafted PR, that has come at a high price to America.
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marynwill: On LDM: It’s worth reading “A modest proposal” section in https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/can-value-added-add-value-teacher-evaluationer.pdf
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For example, from the article
Another teacher’s evidence set might include the results of the
AP test in Calculus with a pretest on key concepts in the course,
plus pre- and posttests on a unit regarding the theory of limits
which he aimed to improve this year, plus evidence from students’
mathematics projects using trigonometry to estimate the
distance of a major landmark from their home. VAM ratings
from a state test might be included when appropriate, but they
would not stand alone as though they offered incontrovertible
evidence about teacher effectiveness.
In other words, things will be slightly modified, but fundamental problems won’t be addressed (like what is this emphasis on math concepts [other than they provide testable data], or why do people think, tests are a good way of measuring math knowledge).
But this is what a politician needs to hear and that’s what a future policymaker needs to say.
Why else would you state
VAM ratings from a state test might be included when appropriate, …
Teststeststests. And they are yearly.
Am I misreading?
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Linda,
What is most amazing is not how much money Gates has spent, but how relatively little he has actually spent to garner so much influence.
With something on the order of a billion dollars, he has (with help from friends in high places) managed to effectively set policy for tens of millions of students (with Common Core, standardized testing and VAM) — and with almost no public oversight.
As you point out, the spending is very strategic with a focus not only on controlling students and teachers (with Common Core” and VAM) but, just as importantly, on controlling the “message” that is picked up and repeated ad nauseam by the media.
To top it off, the money that Gates spends has the potential to benefit his own company Microsoft and others like it (to the tune of billions) and much of it would actually be lost to taxes if Gates did not dump it in his foundation. So the idea that this fellow is doing it out of the goodness of his heart is just ludicrous.
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“how little spent-how much influence” If it was presented as forthright extortion, how much would each American pay, the barbarians from Wall street and Silicon Valley, just to have their public schools left alone? Since the returns are over time, we can use a discount value table or, we can pay yearly fee until, the barbarians are vanquished.
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Mary,
The state of Washington doesn’t have the right to call itself, either.
It’s a colony and, it is a dishonor to an American revolutionary.
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The group of insiders who run political campaigns is probably small. The
white-washing of big Democratic donors, by Media Matters was necessary, after the political operators had dressed, corporate right-wingers up, as Democratic philanthropists. The corporate frauds were happy with the disguise. The alignment put a pretty face on their reputations. It disguised their money-making as charity and, they bought influence in presidential and state administrations.
As speculation, when the Sanders campaign went national, he hired from a small pool of political operatives. If the operatives kept Sanders out of the fray about education reform, they could keep themselves in positions to maneuver for future campaign opportunities, requiring money from Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
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I think your speculation about why Sanders has largely kept mum on education makes a lot of sense.
How else can one explain the fact that neither he nor his wife even talked to Diane Ravitch but his wife nonetheless found time to do an interview with a college student?
I think you are right. The decision came from his advisers, who were simply keeping their options open, not wishing to do anything that might offend Clinton’s campaign donors* and thereby foreclose on future employment opportunities for themselves. (*I would imagine that some Wall Street and Silicon valley types are none too happy with what Diane has said.)
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The job of political operative would attract a disproportionate share of people with amoral personalities.
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Poet “The decision came from his advisers, who were simply keeping their options open, not wishing to do anything that might offend Clinton’s campaign donors* and thereby foreclose on future employment opportunities for themselves.”
But what if Sanders found this out? This intentional ignorance could end careers, couldn’t it?
Or they belong to the failsafe class?
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A career in politics ended because of a lack of loyalty.
Impossible to imagine. (Sarcasm)
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“CORRECTED and UPDATED Charter, virtual, and alternative schools account for a disproportionate share of U.S. high schools with low graduation rates, according to a study released Monday. Even though they enroll only a small slice of students, they account for more than half of the U.S. high schools that graduate 67 percent or less of their students in four years.”
The alternative high schools WOULD have lower grad rates, but what’s the excuse for the “virtual charters” and why are ed reformers pushing online classes into every public school with numbers like this?
So much for “data-based” decision making. Why are they cheerleading online classes with such a disastrous track record?
Could it possibly be that tech companies fund their entire “movement”?
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Why is a union-funded report on charter schools less credible than a charter funded report on charter schools?
Eli Broad or the Walton heirs are somehow disinterested while labor unions are not?
That’s just nonsense.
Are they just better and more ethical people because they’re rich? Union funding is somehow icky and dirty while billionaire funding is pure and noble?
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/me-union-charter-study-20160509-snap-story.html
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Ohio’s newspapers quickly dismiss whatever activities that workers collectively fund. It’s fairy dust that promotes the ed reform activities.
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Diane .
School free of drog ?
Free of Jehovah’s winesess , next goal ( Americans not are welcome and afroamerican – this charter need another Marter L. King ; Rosembert and Washinton )
Reibel Castillo this me ( suport nedeed)
Your post are solids , you don’t know me , because you are non-Spanish speaker .
Diane .
Please I deserve be lisened 🙂
Please or only are welcome , smart people 🙂
I have a lot of knowledge , 4 country’s ( Cuba – Rrusian – U. S . A ) Ah 4 hialeah fl is an independent , the constitution here is unic , The city hall now is a museum .
Now the Mayor office is in a Chater school .
A business , an school plus the police deparment HEADQUATER of hialeah is in Hialeah Education Academic .
Ps. The House is Hialeah Education of America ( 24/7 stricted securite )
Polices putting kids at front ( soldiers )
Rookie polices ( non- English speaker after ; Teachers , )
The mayor is powerfull and very nice , never been charge once , a couples charges criminals only .
Ps.
The mayor hate me , because I Conplain ( sex-arasment – principal cheat students parents can buy FCAT ( only a couples proved )
Fisical abuse kids , a couples , sex- areasment is legal ( a bunch )
Ah media same as Cuba ( free speach gone )
Por favor diane , introduce me a Ciare .
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“How could a report on corporate “reform” omit the billionaire funders?”
Is dominance the product of truth, or does truth threaten the relations of dominance?
If the conventional “paths to success” are based on truth, how did they become the
“trail of broken hearts” for far too many?
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Sadly, I think the much better question for Media Matters and other mainstream media organizations is “How could a report on corporate “reform” not omit the billionaire funders?”
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People are shocked when I tell them Gates is one of the major movers behind the destruction of free public education, which tells you just how well the lack of unbiased media coverage has hidden his tracks. Indeed, it’s been implied I’m deluded, if not an outright liar, to even suggest someone of his intelligence and cleverness would do such a thing.
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If I may correct your statement: “. . . to even suggest someone of his SUPPOSED intelligence and DISHONEST cleverness would do such a thing.
I get the same response Elizabeth when I bring up Gates as the main dollar force behind the education deform and privatization. It’s the old “conspiracy theory” look-“What kook would believe that Billy the Gates would do such a thing?”
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Some of the people most sucked in by the Gates PR, are living in our communities, going into public schools everyday, to work. That’s a failure of the union.
When Philanthropy Roundtable reported 13 years ago, that the goal of the Gates-funded New Schools Venture Fund, was “to develop charter management organizations that produce a diverse supply of different brands on a large scale” and, it didn’t act as a heads up, someone was asleep at the wheel or, working for the other side.
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Why are they shocked, Elizabeth? Haven’t they heard how much the Gates foundation is doing all over the world? Did they think, he asked the people first before he decided to spend the money?
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Gates doesn’t even need to hide his tracks. Most people either don’t know or don’t care that he has said things like
“When the tests are aligned to the common standards, the curriculum will line up as well—and that will unleash powerful market forces in the service of better teaching. For the first time, there will be a large base of customers eager to buy products that can help every kid learn and every teacher get better. …”
In other words, Common Core is going to turn your kids into a customer base for testing and software and hardware companies.
and
“All states and districts should collect common data on teachers and students. We need to define the data in a standardized way, we need to collect all of it for all of our students, and we need to enter it in something cheap and simple that people can share. …”
Many people still claim with apparent sincerity that “the standards are separate from the curriculum and tests” and that Gates’ motives are more pure than the driven snow.
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Yes, Gates speech is quite something: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Speeches/2009/07/Bill-Gates-National-Conference-of-State-Legislatures-NCSL
Amazingly, it begins with
These are not ordinary times. We’re in a severe economic downturn—and you, as state legislators, may have a more complete picture of the impact of this recession than anyone else in the country. You are forced to balance your budgets, even as the recession increases your expenditures and cuts your revenues. Your constituents are losing their jobs, their savings, and their homes—and everywhere you go, people are asking you to make it better.
This is a painful time.
But difficult times can spark great reforms—and changes we can make now can help us come out of the downturn stronger than when we entered.
So disasters are great for pushing your own agenda. Like Katrina was the best thing that happened to New Orleans.
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When I read the Gates article, I want to stop him after every single sentence. But in reality, only one of his claims needs to be taken apart to negate the whole crazy rant about data, measurement and achievement.
Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement.
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The point about Gates’ exploiting states’ severe budget shortfalls is a good one and should be viewed in the context of what was being done at the US DOE to force people to “get with the program” (Common Core, testing and VAM and the rest).
I think the emails and log of phone calls between Gates Foundation and the US DOE would be very interesting. I assume they are probably available through a Freedom of information request (though maybe not, since some Obama officials use offsite email servers 🙂 )
It’s no coincidence that the sorts of things Gates talked about in that speech just happened to become policy.
“The Gates-phone”
The White House has a Gates-phone
That’s answered by Barack
When Billy Gates is home alone
And simply needs to talk
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“I think the emails and log of phone calls between Gates Foundation and the US DOE would be very interesting.”
For somebody like Gary Rubinstein or Mercedes Schneider, getting these would be easy.
I noticed something pretty interesting. The Gates speech for legislators was in 2009. In it, Gates states
Our foundation has studied the variation between the teachers who get the most student achievement and those who get the least – and the numbers are absolutely unbelievable. A top quartile teacher will increase the performance of an average student—based on test scores—by 10 percentile points in a single year.
On the other hand, 4 years later his foundation writes
The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, a three-year study designed to determine how to best identify and promote great teaching, today released its third and final research report. The project has demonstrated that it is possible to identify great teaching by combining three types of measures: classroom observations, student surveys, and student achievement gains.
The problem is that the research supporting the term “top quartile teacher” came 4 years after; you need to be able to measure teaching before you can rank teachers and put them into quartiles.
It’s another matter that the link in http://www.gatesfoundation.org/media-center/press-releases/2013/01/measures-of-effective-teaching-project-releases-final-research-report pointing at the MET report doesn’t work.
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“I think the emails and log of phone calls between Gates Foundation and the US DOE would be very interesting.”
That’s a book. I just made a few requests for info from ED regarding KIPP redacted information. Why do I think they studied the techniques of Stalin, Mao, and that fool in North Korea.
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“Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement.”
Yes, I’m sure that was what drove people like Michelangelo and Leonardo.
And even people at Gates’ own company.
Gates needs to get out out of his bubble more often — or even once. The guy seems to be utterly detached from reality.
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Poet: “Yes, I’m sure that was what drove people like Michelangelo and Leonardo.”
The interesting thing is that Gates has known about the fundamental problem behind his claim that pressure and financial incentives are needed to make things better for at least 30 years.
At first, he was completely puzzled by the success of the free software movement: “Why would anybody do things for free?” He then realized the threat of the movement to Microsoft, since the best email and web servers were free—they were vastly more reliable and faster than the ridiculously expensive MS products. In some of his more honest speeches, he even says that he hopes, windows one day will be as sophisticated and reliable as Linux.
But he is a man of action, so instead of revising his view of the world, he started a battle against free software: discredited them, sued the companies supporting them, and he even bought them (who owns skype?).
To this day, people rather pay for windows and other MS products than getting the free alternatives. That’s the power of publicity.
In my opinion, Gates doesn’t care about people and reality. He believes that he can change the world to his liking and make his imaginary world everybody else’s reality. He’s done this in computing and now he has been doing the same in education.
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Diane .
Mercedes is reach or that is his dream?
Kids Diden’t deserve parents lovely of money .
Billionaires hate money because always are hunting it .
Quote .
Wise people dialogue with ignorants and secure that will loss .
Mercedes this messages is for wise people with a lot of knowledge if have more money are ready to prove this non- English Speaker wrong .
Diane
Mercedes should know , what is the dangers Charter School nation wide .
Mercedes if you know me , you very well knows ..
A clue , FL , dade Caunty , It’s located at the city ranked 5 corrution .
Diane you can be the Referee and rest of blowers the jury .
Ps. Cheating is permited .
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Glad to see that Mercedes and you corrected the record, even if Brock didn’t.
http://correctrecord.org/correct-the-record-launches-as-new-pro-clinton-superpac/
Calling him an opportunist is too kind, more like a political prostitute. And that is the best I can do to remain kind and civil.
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