Is the NYT finally getting it? Gates funding and behind-the-scenes ed manipulation on front page

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/education/22gates.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

What Good News: Sam Dillon at the New York Times has discovered that “local teachers who favor school reform” are actually operatives for a national organization, Teach Plus, financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What Bad News: For years, a number of us have been screaming about Gates buying up education policy — but nobody would listen.

But let’s celebrate what has happened. This story revealing Gates funding everything from the development (and evaluation) of Common Core Standards to the promotion of the public school-bashing “Waiting for ‘Superman’” film was front-page news in the paper of record. And until this happened, the Gates' Foundation’s wealth has put it beyond criticism — except by those of us marginalized as the lunatic fringe. I offer a few notes to flesh out Dillon’s account...

Please Note:

We — you and I — are paying for Gates’ pet projects. Kenneth Saltman points out something few people seem to realize: For every ten dollars given by the Gates Foundation, four dollars is lost from the public wealth in taxes. The philanthropist’s dollars would otherwise go to the public in the form of taxes. So a big chunk of all that money Gates is spending to get teachers on script, destroy tenure, and standardize curriculum is actually OUR money; Bill Gates is using our tax dollars to mold America. And part of the plan is to de-professionalize teachers. Saltman calls on readers "to stop applying business metaphors and logic to educational thinking derived from discredited market fundamentalism." Such terms as choice, monopoly, turnaround, efficiency need to be dropped in favor of public language and assumptions. Taxpayers are subsidizing (as tax-free) an organization bent on undermining their best interests....


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The sad part is those that are 'marginalizing' others that think some way.

They actually see the same stuff as the people they try to marginalize, although it is a nightmare to them, so they don't talk about it and try to hide and pretend it is not there.

If you speak about some of the stuff, they try and make you look crazy, when they been using, in secret, things they actually know exist, for domination. While saying it does not exist, and saying those that speak about it are crazy.

I will trust in better powers, not people. The only sane thing to do when you compare the good thoughts in so many songs and stories without doing harm, and the actions of many people of money.


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