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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Bill and Melinda, Time to Hit “Control + Alt + Delete” and The Fierce Urgency of Now
Dear Bill and Melinda, One of the most dangerous and hypocritical conversations I have heard is your recent interview at Harvard University, as noted by your critic at the Washington Post’s The Answer Sheet, Valerie Strauss. [watch video below] In this interview, … Continue reading
Posted in Control + Alt + Delete, Hoax of Corporate Education Reform, Reign of Error
Tagged Admitting failure, Admitting mistakes, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Interview, College and Career Ready, Common Core State Standards, Control + Alt + Delete, Democracy, Diane Ravitch, Harvard University, Hoax of Corporate Education Reform, Martin Luther King, Melinda Gates, Microsoft, MLK, Public Institutions, Public Schools, Reign of Error, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Urgency of Now
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Reign of Error: Diane Ravitch vs. Bill Gates
image courtesy of http://www.good.is. Dear Bill and Melinda, Our hopes were dashed when you ignored our invitation to attend Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error Book Tour in Seattle tonight. Your silence and your continued lack of response to any one … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Capitalism, Charter Schools, Civil Rights, College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Dialogue with Teachers, Diane Ravitch, Edreform, Failing Schools, inBloom Data Mining, Invitation to Bill and Melinda Gates to dialogue with Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Invitation to Interview, Melinda Gates, Poverty, Privatization, Profit, Race to the Top, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, War on Public Education
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How to Create a Negative School Climate 101
Dear Mr. Gates and Mr. Duncan, I thought I had better get this to you now while it is still on my mind. At the end of the last school year, I was informed that I would be teaching 7th … Continue reading
Posted in Teacher Evaluations, Value Added Measures, VAM, War on Teachers
Tagged Arne Duncan, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, Melinda Gates, NCLB, Secretary Arne Duncan, Teacher Evaluations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Value Added Measures, VAM, War on Teachers
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Formal Open Invitation for an Interview and Attendance to Diane Ravitch’s Seattle Book Tour Event
Dear Bill and Melinda, I am writing Re: A formal invitation to listen to Diane Ravitch speak about her new book and to invite you to join me for an interview about Diane’s new book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of … Continue reading
Posted in Diane Ravitch, Invitation to Interview, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, Diane Ravitch, Hoax of Corporate Education Reform, Hoax of Privatization, Invitation to Interview, Kane Hall, Melinda Gates, Reign of Error, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Seattle Book Tour, September 26th 2013, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Washington
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Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill
Chapter 8 – The World of Work What “college and career ready” really means Bill, “College and career ready” is one of your ed reform slogans that’s repeated ad nauseam. Your way of achieving this goal is to use the … Continue reading
Little Children Should Be Afraid of Monsters Like YOU EdReformers
Mr. & Mrs. Gates, Shame on you. I am sickened to know there are people breathing the same air as me – as my children – who are so callously ignorant and dismissive about another human being’s quality of life, … Continue reading
Posted in Billionaires, Edreform, Monsters of EdReform, War on Public Education
Tagged American Society, Billionaire Boys' Club, Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, Democracy, Diane Ravitch, Edreform, education, Jill Conroy, Monsters, Monsters of Education Reform, Power, Privatization, Public Education, Public Institutions, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Shame on Bill and Melinda Gates, Students, teachers, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Common Good, The Indignant Teacher
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Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill
Chapter 7 – Behind the Scenes http://www.ayearatmissionhill.com/index.php/chapter7 Bill, Yesterday I met a dyslexic man who told me he didn’t learn how to read until he was 37 years old. To avoid having to read out loud in grammar school, he’d hit … Continue reading
Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 