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Top Down “Local Control”

September 5, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Instead of pushing top-down education initiatives nationwide, the Gates Foundation will now push top-down initiatives for networks of ten to twenty schools.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Gates Foundation, Network for School Improvement

Responding to The 74 Jumping on the Social-Emotional Learning Bandwagon

July 23, 2018 By Jane Robbins and Karen Effrem

Jane Robbins and Karen Effrem: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is far more subjective and invasive, and far less effective, than proponents claim. Maybe The 74 should take another look.

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning Tagged With: CASEL, Emotional Intelligence, Gates Foundation, Social-Emotional Learning, The 74

Five Problems With Shifting to Competency Based Education

May 22, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Former executive director for the Gates Foundation, Tom Vander Ark, wrote a piece for Forbes that plugged both competency-based education (CBE) and personalized learning. Shane Vander Hart points out five problems with what he suggests.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Competency Based Education, Gates Foundation, personalized learning, Tom Vander Ark

Bill Gates Can’t Leave ESSA State Plans Alone Either

May 16, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Since its passage in 2015, Bill Gates has poured millions into trying to influence state plans required under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Filed Under: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Tagged With: Associated Press, Bill Gates, Every Student Succeeds Act, Gates Foundation, Sally Ho

Beware of Educrats Peddling “Evidence-Based” Solutions

August 31, 2016 By Jane Robbins

Powerful, wealthy private groups use their influence to bypass democratic processes to impose their preferred evidence-poor policies on public schools.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Bill Gates, Common Core State Standards, education reform, Ford School of Public Policy, Gates Foundation, Megan Tompkins-Stange, Michael Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, U.S. Department of Education

More Blind Faith Placed in Common Core

August 18, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

The Center for American Progress “report” on the Common Core ELA Standards is just a Gates Foundation-funded piece of propaganda.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Center for American Progress, Common Core ELA Standards, Common Core State Standards, Gates Foundation

Blame the Textbooks for Poor Common Core Implementation!

June 30, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

The EdReports.org gave poor reviews to four out of the first five Common Core math textbooks they reviewed, and they are funded by the Gates Foundation.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Learning, College Board, Common Core Math, Common Core State Standards, EdReports.org, Gates Foundation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, The CPM Learning Program

Ze’ev Wurman: Gates Foundation Doesn’t Acknowledge Mediocrity of Common Core

June 8, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

Ze’ev Wurman: Absent in this discussion about Gates Foundation mea culpa is the mediocrity of Common Core, which the Foundation hasn’t yet acknowledged.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Education Week, Gates Foundation, Rick Hess, Sue Desmond-Hellman, Ze'ev Wurman

The Common Core Hoax

May 18, 2016 By truthinamed

Robert R. Logan, PhD, contends that Bill Gates’ goal in pushing Common Core wasn’t really common standards, but computer-adaptive tests.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Alaska, Bill Gates, Common Core, Computer Adaptive Tests, Gates Foundation, Kansas, Robert Logan

Yes, Limits On Your Child’s Tech Usage Are A Good Thing

May 16, 2016 By Lisa Hudson

Lisa Hudson: Unlike what Education Week has reported studies on the adverse effects of excessive use of media on our children has not been limited.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Benjamin Herold, Common Sense Media, education technology, Education Week, Gates Foundation, technology

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