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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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Tagged A Chronicle of Echoes: Who's Who in the Implosion of American Public Education, Anthony Cody, Badass Teachers Unite, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Bill Gates' 2014 Summer Reading List, Bill Gates' Summer Reading List, Children of the Core, Chronicles of Echoes, Class Action: An Activist Teacher’s Handbook, David Greene, Death by a Thousand Cuts, Doing the Right Thing - A Teacher Speaks, Fear and Learning in America, Gates Foundation, J4J Alliance, Jacobin, John Kuhn, Jose Vilson, Journey for Justice, Journey for Justice Alliance, Kris Nielsen, Mark Naison, Mercedes Schneider, The Educator and the Oligarch - A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation, The Gates Foundation, This is Not a Test
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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
This Teacher Can No Longer Tolerate Bill Gates’ Ignorance and Apathy
Dear Bill Gates, This is now the third letter I am publishing on teachersletterstobillgates.com, a website that, by now, you surely must be well aware exists. There have been over 150 heartfelt and emotional posts published in the nine or … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Gates, Billionaires, Capitalism, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, Failing Schools, Invitation to Bill and Melinda Gates to dialogue with Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Jill Conroy, Monsters of EdReform, Our Schools Are NOT Broken, Privatization, Schools are not broken, Uncategorized, War on Public Education
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From One Atheist to Another: How Does Bill Gates Keep his Ego in Check?
Dear Bill, I understand that, like me, you are an atheist. I hesitate to share this piece of information about myself with others due to fears of being rejected and judged and/or being proselytized to. One of my Italian-American Catholic … Continue reading
Public Education is NOT an Industry
Image courtesy of EdVotes.org Dear Bill, I thought of you while reading Forbes’ 30 Under 30 2014 special report, which celebrates the professional achievements of 20-somethings in a variety of industries, including education. Do you see your young self in the … Continue reading
Corporate America Might Need Common Core, But Our “Outputs” Don’t
“Kill poverty not human beings. Stop putting the value of money over the value of lives.” – Mahatma Gandhi December 8, 2013 Dear Allan Golston, This is in response to your editorial America’s Businesses Need the Common Core, which was posted … Continue reading
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US Department of Pearson: Thinking the unthinkable: Why Bill Gates and Arne Duncan need to go
Dear Bill and Arne, We’ve written a story that is unthinkable. Or is it? We discovered you and Steve may be bowing out of Microsoft entirely, but will you and Arne bow out of the DOE too? Who will replace … Continue reading
Posted in Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Department of Education, Microsoft, Pearson
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Mr. Gates, Don’t Wait a Decade. You Are Wrong.
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
A letter from a teacher: At the classroom level, every day matters, as experienced teachers reach out and teach not only academic content, but also social skills, problem-solving skills, coping skills…the list is…
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
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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
Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 