Bill Gates spent hundreds of millions, by one account vastly more than that, bribing an amazing array of institutions, including the two largest teacher unions into accepting a "common core/national test" before it was even written.
The point was to require national computerized tests, forcing all schools nationwide to both buy computers and update to the latest operating systems. The curriculum would follow that because you have to align the curriculum with the test.
It's a hoax. In interviews he insists all he's doing is research and development - finding the most cutting edge teaching pedagogy, without reviewing literature, without studying other countries, without any research at all in fact but instead just imposing things like their new common core math.
Los Angeles for example has apparently spent $1 billion in order to be compatible with these computer-based tests. Nationally it has to be staggering. That's what common core is: Gates is merely expanding the technology market by force of law. He's not going to get all of it for himself, but it means incalculable billions for him in the long run.
The damage he's done to education is that since the hoax required this pretense about new innovative teaching methods - he had to come up with them. That job was given to a stooge named David Coleman. He organized a committee of mostly vested interests that came up with, among other things, their new math.
Nobody knew this was happening. When I first heard about common core, I went to their website and all I found was propaganda gibberish about how this was a grass-roots movement, about how we needed to have high school graduates that were college and employment ready. But no standards. Their website didn't state honestly that there were no standards and that they were being made by this committee funded by Bill Gates. Despite Bill Gates being the force behind common core not a word was said about it on the "informational" website.
Follow the money. Well, you can't do that when they are concealing where the money is coming from and deceiving you with this pretense it was all our idea, a grass roots movement, not Bill Gates' idea. You can't keep it a secret though, especially with his Foundation's tax filings being public information. So when he spoke about it, he pretended it all had to do with research and development into best teaching practices.
They have lied in saying a child cannot understand why 9 + 2 = 11 unless he first understands that 9+1 is ten, which is one unit of tens and the left-over 1 is one additional unit of ones. That is a lie. You can understand it perfectly well without needing to know about base 10 vs. other base number systems as a first grader. That is why the only mathematician on the committee resigned in protest and does speeches against common core now.
But Gates had plenty of staffers from the Gates Foundation in the White House, which helped co-ordinate Obama's direction of over six billion dollars in federal funding to bribe states into accepting common core before it was even written.
States also got waivers from the completely unrealistic No Child Left Behind law if they agreed to accept the as-yet unwritten common core. Nobody knew about the new math and a lot of other hokey stuff because it hadn't even been written. But for a mere $1 million in Gates Foundation money per think tank, they all wrote papers on how the Emperor's clothes were beautiful.
Federal control over education is expressly forbidden by both federal statutes and court cases involving it's unconstitutionality. So we have this spectacle of Gates and his stooges saying we need national standards because having 50 state standards is the source of the problem. But when critics say national standards are illegal, Gates & Co. respond that these are not national standards! Every state will make their own choice about standards. :boggled:
So what's the point? That proves the fundamental deceit with Gates and all the other profiteers like the text publishing industry. Their shake-down in all this is throwing out all the old books and selling brand new ones.
Gates' new math was not field-tested. It wasn't based on science. But everyone has to buy all this technology, just to take the test. Since the curriculum is aligned with the test, the same is true there: school districts are cash cows for profiteers, not centers of learning. That's what is important to Gates and these other plunderers.
Endless cycles of federal initiatives in education are chaos in a field that needs stability. It's an indictment of our entire system that a sea-change of this magnitude in education could happen - accepting an unwritten set of standards for Christ's sake and not even doing so much as a literature review of international teaching methods.
There are reasons it happened - sure. States educational budgets were down because of the recession. The No Child Left Behind law was impossible for states to fulfill. Gates saw his opportunity and even a billion or two thrown at this could reap tens of billions in profit in the long run. Politicians, being the loathsome lot they are, handed the president money with no strings - this was spent out of federal economic bailout money - and that is how Gates got states to be required to adopt the unwritten common core.
Ten states have backed out of the common core so far, and one of the teacher unions already turned against it now that it is actually in print. Hopefully the tide has turned.
If the plumbers had run this show we'd all be required to fix our sinks and toilets. If the dentists had run it, we'd all be wearing braces. But it was the tech industry, Gates in particular - the richest living person in the world - so we all have to upgrade our technology. In Viet Nam they are kicking our ass in math using chalk in open-air schools after we bombed them into the stone age a generation ago. It doesn't require lining Bill Gate's pocket.
The point was to require national computerized tests, forcing all schools nationwide to both buy computers and update to the latest operating systems. The curriculum would follow that because you have to align the curriculum with the test.
It's a hoax. In interviews he insists all he's doing is research and development - finding the most cutting edge teaching pedagogy, without reviewing literature, without studying other countries, without any research at all in fact but instead just imposing things like their new common core math.
Los Angeles for example has apparently spent $1 billion in order to be compatible with these computer-based tests. Nationally it has to be staggering. That's what common core is: Gates is merely expanding the technology market by force of law. He's not going to get all of it for himself, but it means incalculable billions for him in the long run.
The damage he's done to education is that since the hoax required this pretense about new innovative teaching methods - he had to come up with them. That job was given to a stooge named David Coleman. He organized a committee of mostly vested interests that came up with, among other things, their new math.
Nobody knew this was happening. When I first heard about common core, I went to their website and all I found was propaganda gibberish about how this was a grass-roots movement, about how we needed to have high school graduates that were college and employment ready. But no standards. Their website didn't state honestly that there were no standards and that they were being made by this committee funded by Bill Gates. Despite Bill Gates being the force behind common core not a word was said about it on the "informational" website.
Follow the money. Well, you can't do that when they are concealing where the money is coming from and deceiving you with this pretense it was all our idea, a grass roots movement, not Bill Gates' idea. You can't keep it a secret though, especially with his Foundation's tax filings being public information. So when he spoke about it, he pretended it all had to do with research and development into best teaching practices.
They have lied in saying a child cannot understand why 9 + 2 = 11 unless he first understands that 9+1 is ten, which is one unit of tens and the left-over 1 is one additional unit of ones. That is a lie. You can understand it perfectly well without needing to know about base 10 vs. other base number systems as a first grader. That is why the only mathematician on the committee resigned in protest and does speeches against common core now.
But Gates had plenty of staffers from the Gates Foundation in the White House, which helped co-ordinate Obama's direction of over six billion dollars in federal funding to bribe states into accepting common core before it was even written.
States also got waivers from the completely unrealistic No Child Left Behind law if they agreed to accept the as-yet unwritten common core. Nobody knew about the new math and a lot of other hokey stuff because it hadn't even been written. But for a mere $1 million in Gates Foundation money per think tank, they all wrote papers on how the Emperor's clothes were beautiful.
Federal control over education is expressly forbidden by both federal statutes and court cases involving it's unconstitutionality. So we have this spectacle of Gates and his stooges saying we need national standards because having 50 state standards is the source of the problem. But when critics say national standards are illegal, Gates & Co. respond that these are not national standards! Every state will make their own choice about standards. :boggled:
So what's the point? That proves the fundamental deceit with Gates and all the other profiteers like the text publishing industry. Their shake-down in all this is throwing out all the old books and selling brand new ones.
Gates' new math was not field-tested. It wasn't based on science. But everyone has to buy all this technology, just to take the test. Since the curriculum is aligned with the test, the same is true there: school districts are cash cows for profiteers, not centers of learning. That's what is important to Gates and these other plunderers.
Endless cycles of federal initiatives in education are chaos in a field that needs stability. It's an indictment of our entire system that a sea-change of this magnitude in education could happen - accepting an unwritten set of standards for Christ's sake and not even doing so much as a literature review of international teaching methods.
There are reasons it happened - sure. States educational budgets were down because of the recession. The No Child Left Behind law was impossible for states to fulfill. Gates saw his opportunity and even a billion or two thrown at this could reap tens of billions in profit in the long run. Politicians, being the loathsome lot they are, handed the president money with no strings - this was spent out of federal economic bailout money - and that is how Gates got states to be required to adopt the unwritten common core.
Ten states have backed out of the common core so far, and one of the teacher unions already turned against it now that it is actually in print. Hopefully the tide has turned.
If the plumbers had run this show we'd all be required to fix our sinks and toilets. If the dentists had run it, we'd all be wearing braces. But it was the tech industry, Gates in particular - the richest living person in the world - so we all have to upgrade our technology. In Viet Nam they are kicking our ass in math using chalk in open-air schools after we bombed them into the stone age a generation ago. It doesn't require lining Bill Gate's pocket.
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