Showing posts with label Gates Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gates Foundation. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2015

How Did Mary Ellen Elia Get Hired At NYSED Given the Mess She Left In Hillsborough?

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The Tampa Times has another piece about the mess former Hillsborough Superintendent MaryEllen Elia left in the school district as a result ...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Paid Common Core Shills At Urban League Hold Common Core Propaganda Fest

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Nick Reisman at State of Politics: The group, High Achievement New York, will co-host a discussion on Common Core alongside the Urban Le...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

MaryEllen Elia Gives Keynote At Educators4Excellence Conference

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Gates Foundation-funded MaryEllen Elia meets up with Gates Foundation-funded Educators4Excellence for a reformy extravaganza (per the Capi...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Fresh From Giving Prison Abuser Andrew Cuomo An Award, National Urban League Doubles Down On Testing

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You just can't make this stuff up. Self-appointed de Blasio watchdog Hakeem Jeffries gave Governor Andrew Cuomo an award from the Nati...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

A Great Way To Assess College Readiness

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Workingmomfromnys had a reaction to the news that SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher wants to add more tests to the Endless Testing regime in o...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Complicity And Cover-Up: MaryEllen Elia's Failure Of Leadership In The Deaths Of Hillsborough Students

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The tragic stories of Isabella Herrera, a 7 year old who died in 2012 while on a Hillsborough school bus, and Keith Logan Coty, a 6 year old...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

National Urban League, On The Gates Payroll, Pushes Testing

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From a Daily News piece touting low opt out numbers in the state's urban areas: “We need annual assessments to ensure that every chil...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

When You See Pro-Testing Statements From Civil Rights Organizations & Leaders, Check Their Gates Foundation Links

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Randi Weingarten on twitter: @HastingsTeacher @lacetothetop - nat'l civil rights grps support annual tests- they r working w/us on c...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Cuomo Flack Pushes Video For "Outside Observations"

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One of Governor Cuomo's flying attack monkeys tweeted the following: via @NYDailyNews , Thomas Kane: Teachers must look in the mirror ...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Isn't It Time Bill Gates Get His Own APPR Evaluation System?

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GF Brandenburg has a post demonstrating how the heath initiatives of the Gates Foundation are as failed as their education reform initiativ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Free Refreshments Courtesy Of The Gates Foundation-Funded Educators4Excellence

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A notice was passed along about an Educators4Excellence "Testing Networking Event!" tomorrow between 3PM and 5PM in Manhattan. I...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Could There Be Anything Crazier Than Expecting Rich People Like Bill Gates To Save Us?

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Bill Gates does a lot of destruction in education by throwing around a ton of money to push through changes he thinks will make a difference...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

Bill Gates Says He Wants Common Standards AND A Common Curriculum

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It's all about being "common" - for the commoners, at any rate: Bill Gates called the Common Core academic standards a “ver...
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Bill Gates Has Some Leadership Lessons For You

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Great start to week breakfast with @BillGates in DC #LessonsFromLeaders ... the ultimate thought-leader — Nick Owens (@MSPLLC) September...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

New Pro-Common Core Message Push Not Going So Well

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Late last month, pro-CCSS advocates and supporters announced they had enough of losing the Common Core message wars to Common Core critics a...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Microsoft Lays Off 18,000 Employees Based Not On Performance Or Worth To The Company, But By Algorithm

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The people going after teacher tenure and seniority protections always claim that they want these gone so that when layoffs come, teachers c...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Common Core Considered "Radioactive" And "Toxic" These Days

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The AFT leadership may have decided that the Common Core still holds "promise" but much of the rest of America is looking to bury ...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Bill Gates Plans For Wireless Remote Controlled Contraception

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I'm sure this couldn't have any downsides: First Bill Gates brought us a better condom. Now, the billionaire philanthropist and ...
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