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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Modern School: Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)

Modern School: Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)

Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)


Yesterday John Fensterwald published his take on the Gates-funded proposal for improving LAUSD. However, he called it a United Way study (which it was), but didn’t bother to mention Gate’s funding until the very end. Nevertheless, United Way is nothing more than a moralizing poverty pimp mill, so we should be suspicious of their proposals, too.

I will list some of Fensterwald’s summaries below in italics, with my takes in bold.

Teacher Placement:
Sacramento: Allow performance to be used as a factor in determining which teachers will be laid off. California is one of only a dozen states mandating layoffs by seniority.
There is no accurate and unbiased way to measure “performance,”