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Bill Gates Tries to Fashion Teacher Support for His Beloved Common Core | deutsch29

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Bill Gates Tries to Fashion Teacher Support for His Beloved Common Core

March 14, 2014



One would think that if teachers supported the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), then teachers would take the initiative to rally around said CCSS.
Not so. It seems that we need Bill Gates to tell us that we need CCSS. He did so today (Friday, March 14, 2014), in Washington, DC:
Bill Gates is rallying teachers to support an embattled cause, the Common Core State Standards.
Got that? Teachers support CCSS to such a degree that they need Bill to tell them to do so.
It seems that Gates has once again bought himself an audience; he offered his CCSS-indulging speech to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) at its Teaching and Learning conference.
Why is Gates, a non-teacher, offering his non-expertise to an audience of nationally-certified teachers?
Consolation prize for millions donated.
Gates has paid NBPTS $5 million in the form of two grants, one in 2010, and one in 2013:
Date: May 2010 
Purpose: to score Measures of Effective Teaching videos, enhance the Take One materials and processes and design, and assess the efficacy of those materials as a