Is Poverty Destiny?: Ideology v. Evidence in Education Reform | Voices on the Square | National Education Policy Center

Is Poverty Destiny?: Ideology v. Evidence in Education Reform | Voices on the Square | National Education Policy Center:

Is Poverty Destiny?: Ideology v. Evidence in Education Reform | Voices on the Square

 

P.L. Thomas

September 17, 2012

• Gates Foundation [Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]
 
• Anthony Cody
 
• Radical Scholarship Blog
 
• Foundation Involvement in School Reform
• Neo-Liberal Reform(s)
 
• Poverty
 
• School Reform and Restructuring

In the spirit of his Education Week blog, Living in Dialogue, science educator and activist Anthony Cody entered into a five-part exchange with the Gates Foundation (GF) about education reform.

These point-counterpoint posts serve well to illustrate the essential difference between Social Context Reformers, represented by Cody, and "No Excuses" Reformers, represented by the GF:

“No Excuses” Reformers insist that the source of success and failure lies in each child and each teacher, requiring only the adequate level of effort to rise out of the circumstances not of her/his making. As