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BREAKING: Washington State Teachers Union Sues to Block Charter School Funding
The Washington State Education Association and other groups are suing to block the funding of charter schools in Washington State. The battle over charters has gone on for years. There have … Source: BREAKING: Washington State Teachers Union Sues … Continue reading
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Bill Gates’ Market-Driven Experiments Are Not Ready for Prime-Time Public Ed
Dear Mr. Gates, Your Foundation contributions always seem to make for interesting prime time news. The real story about what is actually happening on the ground where your market-driven policies are now the “norm” is relegated to other venues such … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Education Reform
Tagged Bill and Melinda, Bill Gates, Common Core, Corporate Education Reform, Credo Study, Education Experiment, Market Based Reforms, Massachusetts, Melinda Gates, Milton Academy, Not Ready for Prime-Time, Race to the Top, Roxbury, Ruth Rodriquez, Save Our Schools, Standford University, Students, teachers, Test and Punish, United Opt Out
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Bill Gates’ Summer Reading List Showed Up in Bill’s Twitter Feed (with Minor Revisions)
(Slight revision added.) Dear Bill and Melinda, You recently sent out your “summer reading list” on Twitter. We couldn’t resist and made just a few minor revisions. I hope you don’t mind. Last year we sent you an annotated bibliography … Continue reading
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Despite a Handshake and a Promise, Still NO Gates Foundation REPLY to #EducatingGatesRally Demands
Photo Courtesy of Alex Garland Photography, used with permission. Dear Bill and Melinda, In the summer of 2011 the seeds of this protest were planted when I read Bruce Levine’s book “Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Educating the Gates Foundation Rally
Tagged Anthony Cody, Becca Ritchie, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Corporate Education Reform, Democracy, Diane Ravitch, Doreen McGrath, Dr. Vicki Phillips, Educating Gates Protest, Educating Gates Rally, Eric Emans, Gates Foundation Protest, Get Up, Jeremy Hellman, Jonathan Kozol, Julianna Kruger-Dauble, Katie Lapham, Keitha Bryson, KPLU, Kyle Stokes, Morna McDermott, Paul Chonka, Rethinking Schools, Save Our Schools, Save Our Schools March, Stand Up: Uniting Populists Energizing the Defeated and Battling the Corporate Elite, Susan DuFresne, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Tracey Drum, United Opt Out, WA BATs, Washington Badass Teachers Association, Wayne Au
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We, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate education reform.
We, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate education reform. Dear Bill and Melinda, Prestigious academics from around the world collaborated to write a letter to Dr. Andreas Schleicher, director of the Organization for Economic … Continue reading
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Common Core Tests: Educational Malpractice for Students with Special Needs
Dear Mr. and Mrs Gates: This is what is gong on in every county across the country as students with disabilities are forced to take tests they are not yet ready for and have not learned the content: In about … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core High Stakes Testing, Educational Malpractice, Special Education, Special needs
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CCSS, CCSS Testing, Common Core, Common Core State Tests, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, education, Educational Malpractice, Gates Foundation, Malpractice, Melinda Gates, Special Education, special needs, teaching, testing
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Teachers, be silent no more! TLtBG will be signed, sealed, delivered to Bill and Melinda Gates at #EducatingGates June 26th!
Dear Teachers, Katie and I have formally endorsed the Washington Badass Teachers Association’s Educating the Gates Foundation Rally to be held on June 26th. We would like to join hands in coalition building with the Wa BATs by asking … Continue reading
Posted in Educating the Gates Foundation Rally, Publishing Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, Educating Gates, Educating the Gates Foundation Rally, education, Education Activism, Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates, Oligarchy, Protest, Resistance, teachers, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, WA BATs, Washington Badass Teachers Association
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WaBATS are Leading a Movement: #EducatingGates Foundation Rally – June 26th!
Dear Bill and Melinda, Katie and I would like to extend an invitation to both of you to join us at the Gates Foundation in a movement started by teachers and hosted by the Washington Badass Teachers Association on June … Continue reading
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Tagged Anniversary, Anthony Cody, Bill Gates, Common Core, CORE Teachers, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, Educating Gates, Educating Gates Foundation Rally, education, Irvin Scott, Linda Shaw, Louis C.K., Melinda Gates, Resistance, Seattle Times, Summer Reading List, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WA, WA BATs, Washington Badass Teachers Association
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Five Hours of Gates-led Kindergarten Common Core MAP Tests! #TESTHearingsNow
Dear Bill and Melinda, You are making history, Bill and Melinda. You have now reached a new level of notoriety. You two can now be known in history books as the American billionaire couple — with your seat on Air … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Congressional Hearings, #TESTHearingsNow, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Testing, NWEA Common Core MAP Tests
Tagged #TESTHearingsNow, Badass Teachers Association, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CCSS, Common Core, Common Core Testing, Congressional hearings on standardized testing, Congressman, Diane Ravitch, Jack Hassard, Jesse Hagopian, Melinda Gates, Network for Public Education, NPE, NWEA Common Core MAP Tests, Raúl Grijalva, Sarah Littman, Seattle Education, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
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NYC teacher: “THIS is what the Common Core is doing to our children; it’s heartbreaking and wrong”
Bill, You yourself said the authoritative voice is that of the teachers. Read what this Brooklyn, NY teacher – whom I hold in high regard – has to say about your Common Core package. – Katie Lapham “Today after school … Continue reading
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