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Tag Archives: Bill Gates
Gates Foundation Props Up Common Core Testing Consortia
The two testing consortia associated with Common Core are still alive in part thanks to new management and a huge grant from Common Core’s largest funder, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Continue reading
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Posted in Common Core, Testing
Tagged Bill Gates, New Meridian Corporation, PARCC, SBAC
Did You Know Bill Gates Paid A Firm To Help Write NC’s Race To The Top grant?
Johnson should ask Dr. Atkinson why she allowed an out-of-state, multi-billion dollar consulting outfit which was “supported” by the Bill Gates Foundation to guide the writing of the NC Race To The Top application? Continue reading
Posted in Big Ed Complex, EDUCATION, June Atkinson, NC DPI
Tagged Bill Gates, Boston Consulting Group, Race to the Top
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#DM7 Article: Capitalist Bill Gates: Socialism Will Save Us!
This is a repost of my weekly Da Tech Guy Column:
Capitalist Bill Gates: Socialism Will Save Us! Continue reading
Posted in LL1885, Magnificent 7
Tagged #DM7, Bill Gates, Climate Change, Socialism, STUPID
You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting a Bill Gates non-profit
You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Bill Gates non-profit…
…Or a former NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) employee working for a Bill Gates backed non-profit. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, June Atkinson, NC DPI
Tagged Bill Gates, June Atkinson, Learn and Earn, NC New Schools, Potemkin Village, Tabitha Grossman, Tony Habit
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Another House In the Common Core Potemkin Village: Hope Street Group
Over the course of the last three and a half years, I’ve come across more ‘education non-profits’ tied to Common Core than one can imagine. This sea of non-profit organizations all seem to have their roots in a core set of financial backers : Gates, Hewlitt, Walton, Lumina, Carnegie and many more.
A potemkin village of support for Common Core has been erected using this sea of non-profits as education reform astroturf. The Common Core Potemkin Village has a McMansion I missed previously.
This McMansion is Hope Street Group and they’ve recently invaded North Carolina… all with the Blessing of CCSSO President and NC Superintendent, Dr. June Atkinson. The NCAE is also falling over themselves to welcome this group…
KEEP READING….
