Blended Learning: Corporate Profits and the New Teaching Machines
Before there was the Race to the Trough Top front man, Arne Duncan, to hand out billions in tax dollars to bribe states and municipalities to go along with the ed reform plans handed down by the blighted knights of the Business Roundtable (Gates, Broad, Walton, Dell, Fisher, et al), there was Tom Vander Ark, who was hired by Gates to pilot that the RTTT model of generous extortion for the Gates Foundation. Vander Ark handed out hundreds of Gates checks the small schools project and number of other half-baked losing causes that totaled up to more than a billion dollars.
Now Vander Ark is leveraging his connections from his 7 years as check delivery boy for the Gates Foundation to shape the education agenda in ways that will pay a handsome return on Bill and Melinda's beneficence over
Now Vander Ark is leveraging his connections from his 7 years as check delivery boy for the Gates Foundation to shape the education agenda in ways that will pay a handsome return on Bill and Melinda's beneficence over
