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Bill & Melinda Gates Don’t Discuss Their Takeover of America’s Public Schools

March 8, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates’s 2019 letter “We Didn’t See This Coming,” is filled with their concerns and optimism about everything from commodes to climate change. Always eager to discuss their global initiatives to help the poor, and a variety of other endeavors, they say little about the aggressive ways they are remaking public education to their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, books, charter schools, Common Core, Data Collection, Librarians, libraries, Privatization of Public Education, Public School Takeover, reading, reading gains, school libraries, Teacher Effectiveness

More on Memphis School Cuts and the Broad and Gates Foundations

April 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

The Blues City is earning its name when it comes to public schools. Both the Broad and Gates Foundations have seen to it. The other day I posted about cuts to Memphis (Shelby County Schools). I was quickly reminded, rightly so, that these were proposed cuts—like maybe there would be some kind of rollback in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation, charter schools, iZone Schools, Memphis, Relay Graduate School of Education, Rocketship, School Privatization, Shelby County Schools, special education, Teach for America, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Preparation, teachers

Transforming Teacher Preparation—Gates Style

November 20, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have a quote on their website that says “Nobody knows teaching like teachers.” If they believe that, why don’t they let teachers teach the way they know best? Or, why don’t they ask them what they need to teach better? Instead, Mr. and Mrs. Gates are going to now […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, charter schools, Common Core, Data-Driven Teaching, Drill-and-Kill Programs, high-stakes testing, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Residencies, Teacher Transformation Programs, teachers

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live4literacyRosemarie Jensen, M.Ed.@live4literacy·
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@buchananshelle3 @NancyEBailey1 many children do not read by 8. in fact, many countries don’t start reading instruction until 8. we hsve decided children are failures by k.

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UNBELIEVABLE that TN is resorting to third-grade retention! Do lawmakers bother to read ANY education research on this subject? https://nancyebailey.com/2017/10/09/force-flunk-destroying-a-childs-love-of-reading-and-their-life/

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The privatizer types never stop wanting to get their hands on government funding. They pour tons a money into lobbying & marketing. Then they increase their return on investment by shortchanging their students.
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Explains the first step toward changing education into a gig economy, thus ssving iieologues all thhse pesky salary and benefits costs. #oklaed https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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Look who's behind the push for "high-dosage, accelerated" tutoring. But students first need qualified teachers and their expertise & understanding. https://nancyebailey.com/2021/03/07/tutors-replacing-teachers-a-failed-privatization-plot-returns/

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