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Yes, Limits On Your Child’s Tech Usage Are A Good Thing
Photo credit: Bartmoni (CC-By-SA 3.0) In a recent Education Week post, author Benjamin Herold gave a synopsis of Common Sense Media’s report, “Technology Addiction: Concern, Controversy, and Finding...
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The Common Core Hoax
Below is a guest op/ed submitted by Robert R. Logan, PhD. He is a homeschool parent, a retired economics professor from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, and an economics researcher who resides in...
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Ze’ev Wurman: Gates Foundation Doesn’t Acknowledge Mediocrity of Common Core
Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann speaks with young students. Rick Hess at Education Week wrote about the Gates Foundation’s CEO’s Common Core Mea Culpa: It’s reassuring to see Desmond-Hellmann...
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Blame the Textbooks for Poor Common Core Implementation!
Gates funds the standards, funds reviews of the standards, and now funds reviews of the textbooks.Photo credit: World Economic Forum (CC-By-SA 2.0) EdReports.org reviewed five high Common Core-aligned...
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More Blind Faith Placed in Common Core
Photo credit: Vanessa Bazzano (CC-By-NC-ND 2.0) The Center for American Progress issued a “report” about how the Common Core State Standards “arm students with the necessary literacy skills needed for...
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Beware of Educrats Peddling “Evidence-Based” Solutions
Photo credit: World Economic Forum (CC-By-SA 2.0) In an unguarded moment in 2009, Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute admitted that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is running...
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Bill Gates Can’t Leave ESSA State Plans Alone Either
Photo credit: World Economic Forum (CC-By-SA 2.0) The Associated Press reported this morning that Bill Gates has poured millions into trying to influence state plans required under the Every Student...
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Five Problems With Shifting to Competency Based Education
Photo credit: Bartmoni (CC-By-SA 3.0) Former executive director for the Gates Foundation, Tom Vander Ark, wrote a piece for Forbes that plugged both competency-based education (CBE) and personalized...
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Responding to The 74 Jumping on the Social-Emotional Learning Bandwagon
An education news organization called The 74 (heavily funded by the Gates Foundation) recently jumped on the bandwagon for so-called social-emotional learning (SEL). This supposedly objective news...
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Top Down “Local Control”
Photo credit: World Economic Forum (CC-By-SA 2.0) Andrea Gabor wrote an opinion piece for Bloomberg where she highlighted the Gates Foundation’s change in their K-12 education funding strategy. She...
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