Monday, August 13, 2012

Debunking Gates | Truth in American Education

Debunking Gates | Truth in American Education:


Debunking Gates

220px-Bill_Gates_World_Economic_Forum_2007Jay P. Greene offers a post that documents a pattern of Bill Gates & company abusing the idea of “research” and “evidence” to support their policy preferences which which includes the Common Core.
An excerpt:
In education reform debates it is far too common to hear someone say “the evidence shows” something that is just their preferred policy that is not supported by research at all.  People confuse what makes good sense and is good politics with what is actually supported by evidence.  At the Gates Foundation this problem is endemic.  They have repeatedly confused evidence and politics.
I think I can clearly illustrate this confusion of evidence and policy