Bill Gates's Common Core

Bill Gates's Common Core
In a lengthy article profiling the involvement of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the Common Core State Standards movement, Lyndsey Layton writes in The Washington Post that the foundation didn't merely bankroll the movement's development. It built national political support, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes. Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing money and structure in a way that avoided a collision of states' rights and national interests. The foundation spread money to teacher unions and to business organizations -- groups that have clashed in the past -- as well as to policy groups on the right and left, funding research by scholars of varying political stripes. Money also flowed to state and local groups to influence policymakers and civic leaders. The idea found a major booster in President Obama. And yet, because of the way education policy is decided, the Common Core was instituted in many states without a single vote taken by an elected lawmaker. In an interview, Bill Gates said his role has been to fund research and development of new tools like the Common Core and offer them to decision-makers trying to improve education. It's up to the government to decide which tools to use, but someone has to invest in their creation, he feels. More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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