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THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: More lies from the head honcho corporate reformer

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: More lies from the head honcho corporate reformer

More lies from the head honcho corporate reformer


Richard Rothstein is both smart AND honest. Bill Gates is not.

The American public should storm the Gates Foundation headquarters and demand that that know-nothing, ed reform dabbler, public policy-driving, and Ed Dept billionaire puppeteer, Bill Gates, appears in a televised public debate with Richard Rothstein. From the National Journal Education Expert blog (my red bolding).

Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute

Last week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates published an op-ed in the Washington Post, “How Teacher Development could Revolutionize our Schools,” proposing that American public schools should do a better job of evaluating the effectiveness of teachers, a goal with which none can disagree. But his specific prescriptions, and the urgency he attaches to them, are based on the