Gates Grant to “Further Hardwire the Common Core Curriculum” ??
One way to ensure permanence in the field of electronics is to “hardwire”– which means to “permanently connect.”
In electronics, “hardwiring” refers to circuitry.
For billionaire public education purchaser Bill Gates, circuitry and mass education, it’s all the same.
Bill Gates has already likened the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to circuitry, with the moronic assertion that standardization of an American education from which he and his children are exempt will surely lead to “innovation” in this March 2014Washington Post appeal to teachers to “defend” CCSS:
Gates said common standards could transform U.S. education, reduce the number of students taking remedial courses in college and enable American students to better compete globally.Standardization is especially important to allow for innovation in the classroom, said Gates, who used an analogy of electrical outlets.“If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive,” he said. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers, he said.If states use common academic standards, the quality of classroom materials and professional development will improve, Gates said. Much of that material will be digital tools that are personalized to the student, he said. “To get this innovation out, common standards will be helpful,” he said. [Emphasis added.]
Gates said, Gates said, Gates said. Got that?
Making all US classrooms “the same” will somehow (only the fairies really know how) *transform US education.* He assumes that since appliances operate via the same “plug,” CCSS is suitable for the American classroom for the masses.
Just plug in the children of the masses, and creativity will bloom. Standardization will lead to *digital solutions*, which apparently are the solutions for all kids of the masses, no matter their capabilities, personalities, tendencies, interests, or preferences.
Just plug ‘em in.
Gates doesn’t address the fact that not everything inserted into an outlet is beneficial.
I could “innovatively” design a gadget, plug it in, and get electrocuted.
But back to that “hardwiring.”
Hardwiring is not “innovative.” It is permanent and set.
In that March 2014 Washington Post article, Gates appealed to teachers to “defend” Gates Grant to “Further Hardwire the Common Core Curriculum” ?? | deutsch29: