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Schools Matter: Gates Research Galvanizing Disgust for All Things Gates

Schools Matter: Gates Research Galvanizing Disgust for All Things Gates:


Gates Research Galvanizing Disgust for All Things Gates

Diane Ravitch has uncovered a brave new world of research that makes student clickers as ancient as the knickers.  Funded by Gates at Clemson U., which sold its soul to the highest bidder some years back, this new world technology tracks student attention levels with bracelets.  Next: shock treatments for daydreaming? 

by Diane Ravitch 
Yesterday I posted a blog about the Gates Foundation funding research at Clemson University for something called Galvanic Response Skin bracelets. The project will enable researchers at Clemson to work with researchers in the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to measure student engagement physiologically. MET is the Gates program to identify the most effective (and ineffective) teachers. It is the heart of