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Tag Archives: Race to the Top
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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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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“What sober person gives standardized tests to a kindergartner? Ever meet a 5-year-old?” – Part 3
Dear Bill and Melinda, Our last post covered how corporate reform has increased the amount of testing of 5 year olds in my classroom. In this final post in a series of three parts, I hope to convey what that … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Kindergarten
Tagged American Educational Research Journal, Beverly Falk, Bill Gates, Carmen R. Andrews, Department of Early Learning, Education Week, Holly Yettick, Kindergarten, Melinda Gates, Opportunity Gap, Opt Out, OSPI, Pearson, Pearson profits, Peggy Robertson, Poverty, Race to the Top, RttT, Seat at the education policy table, Standardized Testing, Stephen Krashen, Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment Tool, The Oregonian, TSGAT, United Opt Out, Washington State, What sober person givesa standardized test to a kindergartner?
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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
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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“What is the ranking of my child?”
Dear Bill and Melinda, “What is the ranking of my child?” This is a pretty common question that teachers get at parent-teacher conferences. It seems like a simple question that would result in a simple answer or number. And herein … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Ranking Students
Tagged accountability, Assessment, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Corporate Reform, End High Stakes Testing, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, Ranking Students, Students, teachers, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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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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Testing just gives him another reason to call himself a failure.
Dear Bill and Melinda Gates, For 19 years, I have taught middle school students. About ten years ago, I created a program at our school to address our neediest students: those at risk of dropping out of school even though … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Failing Students, High Stakes Testing
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Failing Children, Failing Students, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Risk Students, High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, RttT, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Special Ed Teacher: High stakes testing is not the way to assess student progress or teacher effectiveness.
Dear Mr. Gates and the Gates Foundation, High stakes testing is not the way to assess student progress or teacher effectiveness. The tests currently in use – and worse, the ones coming, such as the PARCC test – have little … Continue reading
Posted in End High Stakes Testing, Junk Science of High Stakes Standardized Testing, Measuring Effective Teaching, Special Education, Teacher Evaluations
Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Billionaires, Common Core Tests, Corporate Education Reform, End High Stakes Testing, Gates House of Cards, Gates House of Cards Action, High Stakes Testing, IDEA, Measuring Effective Teaching, NCLB, Race to the Top, RttT, Special Education, Teacher Evaluations, Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, 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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Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates 