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Category Archives: Common Core State Standards
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
Posted in Bill Gates, Capitalism, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core Implementation, Common Core State Standards, Edreform, Gates Foundation, Impatient Optimists, Measuring Effective Teaching, New York, Obstacle to Learning, Privatization, Profit, School has become testing facility, Standardized Testing, Uncategorized, Unique Talents, Value Added Measures, VAM, War on Public Education, War on Teachers
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Won’t Someone Please Think of the Children?
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Gates, The next time you wanted to fund a huge EXPERIMENT in America, perhaps you should consult the PARENTS of the 50 million children! And don’t ever think you will get away with stealing a decade … Continue reading
Posted in Badass Teachers Association, Common Core State Standards, Democracy
Tagged Badass Teachers Association, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, Children, Common Core National Standards, Common Core State Standards, Democracy, Education Experiment, Experimenting with Children, Experiments, Kelly A. Braun, Mammon and Morals, Ohio, Parents, Profit, Propaganda, Public Schools, Republic Democracy, Students, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Un-Americanism
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Live from New York: Is Participating in Common Core Asking Children and Teachers to Commit Educational Suicide?
Dear Bill and Melinda, Let’s stare the cold hard results of the first round of ELA and math Common Core state tests from New York right in the eye. Fewer than one third of all students who took the exams … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core as Educational Suicide, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core State Standards, High Stakes Testing, New York ELA CCSS Test Results
Tagged AFT Union, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Common Core State Tests, Diane Ravitch, Failing, Failing Schools, High Stakes Testing, High Stakes Tests, Hoax of Corporate Education Reform, Hoax of Privatization, NEA, New York, New York ELA CCSS Test Results, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools - Diane Ravitch, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Teachers' Unions, Turnaround Schools
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Schooling should help children DISCOVER their own unique talents, not “standardize” them.
Dear Bill, Grading teachers based on when their students acquire and master a specific set of skills, is like grading parents based on when their children learn to tie their shoes or ride a bike. While, most people can learn … Continue reading
Posted in College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Teacher Evaluations, Unique Talents
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Reform, creativity, education, Gates Ed, One Size Fits All, Parents, standardization, Student Abilities, Student Interests, Student Voice, Students, Teacher Evaluations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Unique Talents
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Here’s an idea, what if every school adopted a dual career and college readiness mandate?
Dear Bill, The Common Core’s emphasis on independent mastery of complex informational text puts weaker and learning disabled readers at a severe disadvantage. The Common Core also presumes that the information our students will need to analyze and interpret in … Continue reading
Posted in College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core State Standards
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CCSS, College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Common Core Testing, Corporate Education Reform, ELA, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, PARCC, RttT, SBAC, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia, Social Emotional Development, Standardized Testing, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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You can keep WEIGHING the baby all that you want but unless you take the time to feed the baby, the baby will never gain weight.
Dear Mr. Gates; I have been a public education teacher for 17 years. I am a mom to two children, one in public middle school and one in public high school. I am looking to opt my children out of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing
Tagged Arne Duncan, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Bush School, CCSS, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, Diane Ravitch, Education isn't broken, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, Lakeside School Seattle, Mark Naison, Michelle Rhee, Public Education, Stephen Krashen, Susan Ohanian, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Open up a dialogue with people who are actually in the trenches daily–TEACHERS
To Bill and Melinda Gates: I would like to thank for your years of supporting education and schools around the world. But at this time, I do not think that you are supporting education in the United States with your … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Dialogue with Teachers, High Stakes Testing
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Common Core Tests, Corporate Edreform, Corporate Education Reform, Dialogue with Teachers, Edreform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards Action, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Future School Counselor: Our educational system is not broken, but if you continue your push for high stakes testing it soon will be.
Dear Mr. Gates, I am writing to respectfully request that you reevaluate your backing of education “reform” and the use of high stakes testing that goes with it. I am a mother of two middle school aged children and am … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core State Standards, High Stakes Testing, School Counselors, Schools are not broken
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Ed, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, School Counselors, Schools are not broken, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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From the Common Core to the Common Good: A New Way Forward
Dear Bill and Melinda, Since you are such strong proponents of the Common Core, how about if you change your focus from the Common Core to the Common Good. According to Jim Wallace, “The common good should impact all of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Common Core State Standards, Common Good, Moral Mondays
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Common Core Tests, Common Good, education, Melinda Gates, Moral Mondays, Philanthropists, Philanthropy, Public Education, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 