Reflecting on what I’m reading 5/22/2011
When I started this blog, I would do a weekly round-up of what I was reading around the Web. Given the plethora of ed politics and policy news this week, it seemed like a good time to bring that back. Here are some of the stories I’ve been reading:
First up, Bill Gates and his foundation hit the news in a big way. Here are three links:
- The Business of Giving | Lancet questions Gates Foundation’s health spending priorities | Seattle Times Newspaper
This article was about problems that are Gates Foundation money is creating in their quest for a cure for malaria. I think it’s important because it points up the many of the same problems that his ventures in education have; lack of objectivity, lack of expertise, and the tendency to apply technocratic solutions in places where there are known and effective non-technical solutions. As my friend Larry Ferlazzo likes to
