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Category Archives: Race to the Top
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
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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Texas has already begun to catch-on. When will you?
Race to the Top? “We would be foolish and irresponsible to place our children’s future in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and special interest groups thousands of miles away in Washington.” – Governor Rick Perry Mr. and Mrs. Gates, As … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Race to the Top
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Foundation, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, Governor Rick Perry, High Stakes Testing, Race to the Top, Rick Perry, RttT, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Texas, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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I cannot continue, in good conscience, to push these little ones to such stress levels that they do not WANT to come to school. — Teacher Who Quit
Dear Mr. Gates, I would like to believe that you have children’s best interests at heart, but I’m concerned that you are so high up in your ivory tower that you can’t hear what those of us who live under … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Race to the Top, Teacher Resignations
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, Edreform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Foundation, Gates House of Cards, High Stakes Testing, Poverty, Race to the Top, RttT, Teacher Resignations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, testing, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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High stakes testing is strangling America’s public schools. #EndHighStakesTesting
Dear Bill Gates, High stakes testing is strangling America’s public schools. I have been a teacher for 10 years, all of them in high-poverty schools. Early in my career, when NCLB was just getting started, I knew even then that … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Mr.and Mrs. Gates: This experiment should be put to rest for once and for all…
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gates, For years now, you have joined forces with Michelle Rhee to drive and enact your education reform agenda. The cornerstone of this agenda states that the greatest single factor effecting student achievement is to place a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Education Reform, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CCSS, CCSS Testing, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates Ed, Gates Education, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, Invalid Corporate Education Reform, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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NCLB and RttT are removing our final hope of an equal education…experienced teachers.
Dear Bill and Melinda, I retired last year – three years earlier than I’d planned – after teaching in an urban high school in Providence, Rhode Island for almost two decades. The faculty had been working hard since the mid-90s … Continue reading
Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 