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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: How Every Kid Could Go To Bill Gates's Private School

Jersey Jazzman: How Every Kid Could Go To Bill Gates's Private School:


How Every Kid Could Go To Bill Gates's Private School

There are times when I'm not sure that even EduShyster could parody the musings of Bill Gates. For example:
After almost two decades of pursuing improvements in U.S. education through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates maintains a sweeping and grand ambition. His goal for the next 20 years, he says, is to graduate roughly twice as many kids from college, move the United States up in the international rankings,and do so without spending more money. It's as if Gates wants to apply a version of Moore's law (in which the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit double every two years) to education. 
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Gates: In K-12, we're in an era where, unfortunately, we're not going to be able to increase the amount of resources, because state budgets are tight and