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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
Posted in Demand to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Divest from Corporate Education Reform
Tagged Alfie Kohn, Badass Teachers Association, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, billions of dreams not billionaires' dreams, Carol Burris, Corporate Education Reform, David Berliner, Diane Ravitch, Edreform, Educating Gates Foundation Rally, Educating Gates Rally, Henry Giroux, High Stakes Testing, Mark Naison, Melinda Gates, Noam Chomsky, OECD, Organization for Economic and Cooperation Development, PISA, PISA Test, Standardized Testing, Stephen Krashen, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, venture philanthropists, venture philanthropy, Washington Badass Teachers Association, Yong Zhao
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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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Where in all of this testing is a benefit for students?
Dear Bill and Melinda, Below, one of our readers responds to our blog post “My name is Andrea Rediske, and I am Ethan Rediske’s mother. Please Pass #EthansAct! #EyesOnDOE“ “The tests given to our children claim to be criterion referenced meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Ethan's Act, High Stakes Testing
Tagged #EthansAct, #EyeOnDOE, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Advice, Diane Ravitch, Ethan Rediske, Ethan's Act, High Stakes Testing, Lloyd Lofthouse, Melinda Gates, NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Opt Out, Opt Out Orlando, Pearson Test Profits, Race to the Top, Reign of Error, RttT, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Tins Hayley, United Opt Out
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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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“What sober person gives standardized tests to a kindergartner? Ever meet a 5-year-old?” – Part 2
Dear Bill and Melinda, I wrote “What sober person gives standardized tests to a kindergartner? Ever meet a 5-year-old?” – Part 1 to give parents of five year olds the beginning of some insight into what is happening because of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Kindergarten Testing
Tagged Alfie Kohn, Bill Gates, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Reform, Cost of High Stakes Testing, DIBELS, Gates Foundation, Gates Foundation Grants, High Stakes Testing, IEP, Individualized Education Plan, Kindergarten Testing, Melinda Gates, OSPI, Parents, Pearson, Poverty, Richard Allington, Rupert Murdoch, Special Education, special needs, Standardized Testing, Stephen Krashen, Students, WELPA
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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
Posted in Best of 2013, Data
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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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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
Tagged 1%, Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Education Reform, Department of Education, Diane Ravitch, DOE, Head Start, High Stakes Testing, inBloom, inBloom Edu, John Fallon, Market Based Reforms, Microsoft, Pearson, Pearson CEO, Poverty, Privatization, Reign of Error, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools - Diane Ravitch, Standardized Testing, Steve Ballmer, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Test Corporation, US Department of Education
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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 