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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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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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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
Posted in Educating the Gates Foundation Rally, Washington Badass Teachers Association
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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High Stakes Testing, Special Education: A False Picture of Failure
Dear Bill and Melinda, I am a retired teacher from the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. I taught English Language Arts in the middle school and high school until retiring in the fall of 2011. One of the … Continue reading
Posted in High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged American Psychological Association, APA, Bill Gates, Common Core, Failure, Grade Level Testing, Helen Keller, High Stakes Testing, IEP, Melinda Gates, One Size Fits All, Retired Teachers, Rhode Island Department of Education, Rhode Island DOE, Rhode Island School for the Deaf, Sheila Resseger, Special Education, special needs, standardization, Students, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Zone of Proximal Development
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Do Bill and Melinda Gates have the right to affect our childrens’ lives for an eternity?
Dear Bill and Melinda, You and Melinda went to school. You have kids in school. You, Bill — are an expert at developing a software company, despite having never graduated from college. Melinda, you are an expert at business, per your … Continue reading
Posted in Profession of Teaching, Teachers
Tagged A seat at the education policy table, A teacher affects eternity, Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Common Core, Common Core Myths, Experts, Henry Brooks Adams, HIghly Qualified, highly qualified status, Melinda Gates, Myths of Common Core, Parenting the Core, Profession of Teaching, Professionalism, Sarah Blaine, Students, teachers, teaching, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Teachers
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My name is Andrea Rediske, and I am Ethan Rediske’s mother. Please Pass #EthansAct! #EyesOnDOE
Dear Bill and Melinda, A national wave of empathy and outrage was created when the state of Florida demanded a child named Ethan Rediske take the FCAT high stakes test. Despite the fact that Ethan was on his deathbed at … Continue reading
Posted in Andrea Pratt Rediske, Ethan Rediske, High Stakes Testing, Special Education
Tagged Andrea Pratt Rediske, Bill Gates, Common Core, Department of Education, Disabilities, Ethan Rediske, FCAT, Florida DOE, Florida FCAT, High Stakes Testing, IDEA, Melinda Gates, Opt Out Orlando, Special Education, Standardized Testing, Students
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Our Top 10 from 2013, but Bill Gates is Still Not Making Nice with Teachers
Dear Bill and Melinda, As 2013 comes to a close, we thought we would highlight the top 10 posts on Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates that most resonated with teachers and parents this year. Due to your continued silence, we … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 Steps of Recovery, 2013, 2014, activism, Anthony Cody, Baddass Teachers Association, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates make nice with teachers, Billionaires, CCSS, CCSS Testing, Claudia Swisher, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, corporate reforms, Data, democrats, Diane Ravitch, End of Course Exams, Failing Children, failing teachers, Gates Foundation, GOP, GPA, Graduation, Grand High Corporate Reformer, Grand High Witch, Happy New Year, high school graduation, High Stakes Testing, I Quit, Jill O’Malley Conroy, Katie Lapham, Kindergarten, March on Washington, Marla Massey Kilfoyle, Melinda Gates, Michelle Cosgrove, National Board Certified Teacher, PARCC, Parents, Pearson, Poverty, Race to the Top, Resistance, Roald Dahl, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia, Smarter Balanced Consortia, state tests, Students, Susan DuFresne, teachers, Teachers who quit, The Indignant Teacher, Valerie Strauss
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Heavy emphasis on “hard skills” leaves children unprepared for the real “tests” in life.
Mr. Gates, Working with grade 7-12 students for more than two decades, and as a summer youth employment counselor for 10 years, it has been my experience that a lack of soft skills and virtues (perseverance, ambition, responsibility, self-confidence, self-discipline, … Continue reading
Posted in Hard Skills, Soft Skills, Soft Skills vs Hard Skills
Tagged Adecco, Anderson Cooper, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CCSS, College and Career Ready, Common Core, Corporate Learning World Blog, Dale Carnegie, Erin Brockovich, hard skills vs soft skills, Henry Ford, High Stakes Testing, Johnathan Chase, Magic Johnson, NICHD, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Art of Learning, The National Association of Colleges and Employers, Tom Cruise, Winston Churchill, Workforce Solution Groups
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