The entire nation’s education system suffers from the arrogance of Bill Gates. Because he is so very very rich, he thinks he knows everything, and when he gets an idea, he imposes on the entire nation.
He has spent billions on his reimagining of American education since 2000, and has nothing to show for it.
He spent over $2 billion on Common Core; he paid for everything, and he even paid off hundreds of millions or more for every education organization the foundation could think of to declare it was the best thing ever.
Peter Greene explains Gates’s latest idea here.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
We’re going to build a beautiful common core, and we’re gonna make the students pay for it.
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Spot on…and manages to be amusing even though my dominant reaction towards Bill Gates does not involve amusement.
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Peter is great at cutting to the chase. I am not, but here are a few more points about this latest venture from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation titled “Professional Learning Partnerships to advance professional learning services supporting implementation of high-quality instructional materials.”
I downloaded the press release and the Request for Proposals. The jargon is think and the reasoning is convoluted. These attributes of the press release and RFP are present in order to disguise the essence of the proposal and assumptions that undergird it, namely that teachers must be incompetent or they would do a first class implementation of our unimpeachable Common Core standards (and the Next Generation Science Standards). And they can only be lazy or uninformed about the wonderful Gates-approved instructional packages aligned to these standards. We will fix those deficiencies with our investment of “partnerships.”
More from the RFP: “Partners will be asked to report on the following outcomes and dimensions of impact, some of which may be more or less relevant depending on the nature of the proposed partnership.
The specific measures of these outcomes, especially the Levers of Change and Student Impact outcomes, will be co-created in collaboration with a research and technical assistance partner (see below) to ensure that individual partners can learn about their own impact and the field can gain a broader set of learnings around how effective curriculum implementation services drive changes for educators and students.”
The RFP writers went to sleep. There was no “see below” to explain the role or to reveal the identity of “a research and technical assistance partner” hired by the Foundation to hover over these projects.
The winners have exactly two school years and one summer to demonstrate gains in student learning (middle or high school) from Common Core-aligned math or ELA instructional materials or instructional packages aligned with Next Generation Science standards.
The RFP specifications for this venture sound to this old-timer exactly like the vintage 1960s efforts to create “teacher proof” curriculum packages. That was in an era before computers, and back then, most projects were launched by the new federally funded regional educational laboratories.
The B&MG Foundation has a fantasy constructed around “this investment.”
“We believe this investment and others that support this strategic goal will eventually help us significantly increase the number of Black, Latino, EL-designated, and low-income secondary students who earn a high school diploma, enroll in a postsecondary institution, and are on track in their first year to obtain a high-quality credential. ”
Watch for this project if you are in the states or districts the Foundation has chosen as “worthy of its investment”: California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and North Carolina or elsewhere if a local education agency serves at least 50,000 students.”
I think that the people who conjured this investment opportunity need some serious professional development.
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I wonder how and why these states were selected as being “investment worthy.”
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It’s good to be the king!
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Interesting. Trump also never admits he is wrong. Does that mean Bill Gates is also a malignant narcissistic and psychopath? If so, then Bill Gates must be a introvert to Trump’s extrovert.
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Lloyd Could you understand my post ? Is still waiting in moderation. I know you understand the way I tipe you are always ready to help and learn . Thanks Lloyd for your good Job and everything you have done as well Díane and others righteousness people .
My comment have to be with Gate and Education is based on the Wisdom and knowledge vs Gate and his Money .
For wisdom is a protection just as money is a protection, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
Lloyd I’m pretty sure you have read that deep prober, deep but God let humble people understand deeper things .
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Bill Gates is not wise. He is smart but ignorant and his wealth bought power that corrupted him and now he is lost to the dark side but them maybe the dark side is where he grew up and that is where he feels at home.
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Bill Gates is not wise. He is smart but ignorant and his wealth bought power that corrupted him and now he is lost to the dark side but them maybe the dark side is where he grew up and that is where he feels at home.
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There is a famous quote attributed to the 19th century’s Lord Acton. If you click the first link and read about his history, he was someone who knew what he was talking about in that famous quote.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Emerich-Edward-Dalberg-Acton-1st-Baron-Acton
He is perhaps best known for the remark, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…”, which he made in a letter to an Anglican bishop.
https://www.acton.org/research/lord-acton-quote-archive
I think that quote fits Bill Gates and most of today’s living billionaires.
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Thanks Lloyd. Have you hear about Jesse Livermore?
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Pretty deep and interesting information my dear and profesor Lloyd I appreciate it very much.
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Bill Gates Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories – The more you study this virus, the more you find the same name: Bill Gates. He’s the 2nd largest funder of WHO. He’s building 7 vaccine labs. Fauci. Tedros. Event 201. ID2020. He basically controls global health policy. What’s the plan? Using vacc
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Lloyd. Hello . I hope you are doing well .
Lloyd I’m been looking researching, it’s the vaccine safe ? The pros vs cons ?A comment from Bill Gates about vaccines and population growth has again been taken out of context.
Bill Gate and Microsoft or Bill Gate the Doctor or farmacy?
It’s the vaccine safe ?
Witch one it’s safer according the Siences ? And according to the knowledge that you have ? People ask me about the vaccine I said well if the pros are 80 vs 20 cons it’s 80 vs 20 I can’t tell you what to do I replied to people like that !
Lloyd I would like to hear from you about the vaccine . Do you get the shots ? I get the second one ( on September.
The 3rd one not yet .
Take care Lloyd. Have a good evening or afternoon I’m 3 hours ( eastern time.👍
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Well, the history of vaccines goes back for centuries. If vaccines killed more people than they saved, we wouldn’t be still using vaccines today more than one thousand years later.
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline/all
This is a brief history worth reading.
Now, how many people have died from taking the COVID vaccines in the U.S.?
Over 339 million vaccine doses were given to 187.2 million people in the US as of July 19, 2021. The vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective. Vaccination is happening under the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history.
If you click the next link and read that information, you will learn that there is no evidence anyone has died from taking one of the COVID vaccines.
https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-vaccine-in-the-u-s/
I had my first two jabs of Maderna a few months ago and plan to have the booster. Everyone that I know that has had the Vaccine is still alive. My family. Most of the vets in my PTSD support groups, because at least one of us has decided to put his life on the line and not take the vaccine. He’s living in North Carolina and he is in his early 50s so maybe his age will save him if he hasn’t been infested by the virus yet.
Next, how many COVID virus deaths have been confirmed?
DEATHS 5.08 million
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=total+confirmed++global+deaths+from+COVID
What about deaths from the ten worst pandemics in history?
Click the next link to learn about those. I did a fast count and stopped at 322 million deaths.
https://www.mphonline.org/worst-pandemics-in-history/
Thern there’s long COVID.
“More than half of the 236 million people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide since December 2019 will experience post-COVID symptoms — more commonly known as ‘long COVID’ — up to six months after recovering, according to researchers. The research team said that governments, health care organizations and public health professionals should prepare for the large number of COVID-19 survivors who will need care for a variety of psychological and physical symptoms.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211013114112.htm
In conclusion, if vaccines had not worked back in 10th century China more than 1,000 years ago, do you think we’d still be using vaccines today?
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Lloyd, Thanks very much for that wonderful explanation to the point where a lot of people who didn’t agreed with the vaccine your kindness and great knowledge those person went and get the shot . Thanks Lloyd from my friends and many others who I shared with them what you send me . It’s a blessing have a friend like you ! May have a wonderful day dear Lloyd. Sincerely. Reibel 👍
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You’re welcome.
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Perhaps Bill Gates is not, but it seems that the extremely rich start regarding themselves as above the rest of humanity once they have reached a certain point. And there are people around them who obey unquestioningly.
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Bill Gate should read this old proverbs but from an long way smarter than Bill Gate even smarter than Albert Einstein, if Einstein where alive the world could be a lot better , Diane there no many smart person and with the knowledge you have , Bill Gate should be seré of that. Wow you always are protecting the good education and Americans Children’s.
This prober is deep but arrogant people and greed because money is been blain people yo the point where a few can see the presente is bleak , blessed are those people who learned the truth sadly no many want to or can’t see it because greters are destroying the light of the Education people with out Knowleage are very easy to trick and confuse .
Florida Education is not good at all. Why not ?
This prober is for people who are open to understand and admit when they are wrong . Humble people are in extinction. Diane please understand that I’m not an English Speaker . In doing my best . Thanks Diane
For wisdom is a protection just as money is a protection, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
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He paid for everything
He might have paid for the development and marketing costs of Common Core.
But he only paid a small fraction of what it cost school districts and states for implementation and for the testing that accompanied it.
But this is Gates MO: he pays a little up front with the idea that schools will pick up most of the tab and that businesses like his can cash in on the standardization down the road.
Gates is the fellow who goes out to the bar and drinks expensive drinks all evening, leaves a couple dollars and takes off before the massive bill arrives.
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And then he comes back the very next day and does the same thing again.
And for some strange reason, many people keep falling for it.
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I say give him a bill for all the billions if not tens of billions that Common Core has cost.
Given that CC was sold to schools under false pretenses, I think a class action suit might be the way to get back some of the billions that were effectively stolen from schools.
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Give Bill the bill.
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Your may just be right in that comparison. Still, our politicians seem to run to do his bidding and the bidding of other rich. People have to fight to limit the influence of money in politics.
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gates is a fraud.
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The last time I checked this still was a capitlist country, so who to tell Gates how to spend his money? Accepting his curricula, tests and service providers is another matter, which is completely on the districts and how their hands are being greased. The fact that Gates and the likes can push their wares through suposedly publicly controlled organization says more about our state of democracy than about evil billionaires. The latter is not arguable because billionaires are always evil, every single one of them.
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Right on ! Change will come only through legislation.
However, we educators have a role in calling out the foibles of villainthropy. Gates is deaf, but the ears we must reach are those of the public. OPT OUT of ESSA testing. Demonstrate against CBL/ testing all the time, get it thrown out. Support campaign reform.
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Your recommendations are positive. There are a wealth of people who need to be informed and reached so they make decisions to limit the money influence. We have to find a means to get information to the people who need it.
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Princeton Prof. Martin Gilens’ research proved the U.S. is an oligarchy.
Blaming government officials, elected or appointed, and citizens for what they do in an oligarchy dodges the point. What are you and I, BA, going to do to return America to a democracy? Public shaming of the villainthropists is the least violent option on the continuum.
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Public shaming does not work if they are not ashamed. If someone contracted STD, are you going to shame the brainless virus or the person who was indiscriminate in their relationships and did not use protection?
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If public shaming of the predator doesn’t work, why would affixing blame to some other party in the transaction correct the situation?
No laws were broken so there wouldn’t even be a court case. And, the affixing of the blame without a reluctant media’s cooperation to publicize it, ends up where?
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“why would affixing blame to some other party in the transaction correct the situation?” – affixing the blame will not correct the situation by itself. Hoping for a “good billionaire” philanthropist is as pointless as hoping for a “good tzar”. Agitating the masses, inviting local citizens for school board meetings, distributing propagandist leaflets, might help. Is this what NPE is doing? Judging by its mission – “to connect all those who are passionate about our schools – students, parents, teachers and citizens” – not really. At best, NPE’s crusade is directed against private/charter schools, not for a better curricula. At the same time, other agents like NSF, NCTM, B&MG, the Waltons keep squeezing public education from different directions. For example, the pitiful math programs that NSF and NCTM authored 20 years ago have been re-badged as Common Core and are distributed in school districts. The non-working Whole Language approach is still advised by NCTE. This is a long-term multi-prong attack, and simply keeping public schools public will not make them better schools.
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“Simply” taking public schools, private, will transform them into training camps under the control of Reed Hastings, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Charles and David Koch,…. Hastings is on Z-berg’s board along with Marc Andreesen who falsely claimed India was better off under colonialism and Peter Thiel who said women voting in a capitalistic democracy was an oxymoron.
The inevitable backlash against American oligarchs is soon or, later. Citizens can aid those fighting for justice and democracy through jury nullification until Kavanaugh’s court takes away the American judicial system.
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It is actually irrelevant whether Gates is wrong or right.
He had no right to do what he has: subverted democracy with his dollars in order to experiment on other people’s children without their consent.
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He had every right. Our laws hand out subversion of democracy in exchange for philanthrobucks.
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