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Doyle and Hynes: We Welcome Bill Gates to New York if He Agrees to Three Conditions | Diane Ravitch's blog

Doyle and Hynes: We Welcome Bill Gates to New York if He Agrees to Three Conditions | Diane Ravitch's blog

Doyle and Hynes: We Welcome Bill Gates to New York if He Agrees to Three Conditions


Author William Doyle and Superintendent Michael Hynes—both known for supporting whole-child education—-say that they would welcome Bill Gates to New York if he agrees to meet three conditions.
They suggest that Gates has a chance to redeem his reputation after 20 years of failure in education.
They write:
The Gates Foundation has been a driving force behind nearly 20 years of consistently failed federal and state attempts at education reform, including the widely reviled “Common Core” state standards. In that time, little-to-no system improvement has occurred, despite the squandering of vast sums of money by the Gates Foundation and by taxpayers. In a blog post noting the flaws of Common Core and announcing plans to re-focus their funding, Gates announced, “As we have reflected on our work and spoken with educators over the last few years, we have identified a few key insights that will shape our work and investments going forward.”