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Bill Gates: Education Should Be America's Top Concern

Posted 02.01.2013 | Impact
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Bill Gates was on "Morning Joe" Wednesday to talk about the role of innovation in humanitarian aid, but singled out education as the issue that could ...

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Does Bill Gates Owe Arne Duncan an Apology -- or Not?

John Thompson | Posted 09.16.2012 | Home
Read More: The Grand Bargain, Bill Gates, Common Core, The Turnaround Challenge, Arne Duncan, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Measuring Effective Teaching, Home News
John Thompson

The challenge of Common Core would have always been daunting. It now must be done on the cheap, however, after billions of dollars have been squandered on Duncan's bubble-in "reforms."

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Heeding the Evidence on Teacher Quality

John Thompson | Posted 04.24.2012 | Home
Read More: Teacher Quality, Jesse Rothstein, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Arne Duncan, Linda Darling Hammond, Bill Gates, Edward Haertel, Measuring Effective Teaching, Race to the Top, Home News
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If Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had had any idea what the latest Gates Foundation project would find, would he have gambled so heavily on test-driven policies in Race to the Top and his other "teacher quality" reforms?

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The Costs and the Lost Benefits of Graduation Exams

John Thompson | Posted 08.09.2012 | Home
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Most educators already know that we should be teaching analysis, synthesis, and problem-solving, so perhaps our experiment with graduation exams will prompt us to follow the path we always knew we should be taking.

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