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Dont call me Shirley

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14. A different perspective...
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 07:02 PM
Aug 2015
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/national-curriculum/Partnership Formed to Develop Digital Curriculum

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with the Pearson Foundation, the world’s largest publishing company, to create a curriculum for the nation aligned to the CCSS. According to the Gates Foundation’s press release, it will spend $20 million to develop resources aligned to the Common Core State Standards including:

Game-based learning applications
Math, English language arts and science curricula built into digital formats
Learning through social networking platforms
Embedded assessments.
Other participants is the effort are: Educurious Partners, Florida Virtual School, Institute of Play, Reasoning Mind, Quest Atlantis, Digital Youth Network and EDUCAUSE.

The Gates Foundation expressly admits that its intention is to align learning tools with the Common Core State Standards and “to fundamentally change the way students and teachers interact in the classroom, and ultimately, how education works in America.”

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Wow. Orrex Aug 2015 #1
Good Gawd! leftofcool Aug 2015 #2
Some Kenyans run with bare feet!? No ways! Rex Aug 2015 #3
Yes, some Kenyans DO run with bare feet Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #11
But it doesn't say runners as in training for sports. Rex Aug 2015 #12
Did you not read the article? Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #19
My Pilates teacher runs barefoot. roody Aug 2015 #17
You forgot Classist too . Co. tried to sell the program to teacher /educators as lunasun Aug 2015 #4
Yep! gollygee Aug 2015 #5
This is an MPS problem, not part of Common Core frazzled Aug 2015 #6
A different perspective... Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #14
Districts don't have to buy it /nt frazzled Aug 2015 #15
But many are buying it. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #16
All to further enrich Gates. roody Aug 2015 #18
This simply cannot possibly be real. Right? n/t prayin4rain Aug 2015 #7
Yikes Solly Mack Aug 2015 #8
Wut? hifiguy Aug 2015 #9
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2015 #10
Schools, prisons, health care for profit - TBF Aug 2015 #13
"Reading Horizons" is one of the many LWolf Aug 2015 #20
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