| Anthony Cody just published a book about his efforts to educate Bill Gates. The book is called "The Educator and the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges Bill Gates." Bill Gates has used his billions to impose his ideas, despite his total lack of experience as a teacher or student or parent in the nation's public schools. He surrounds himself with people who never say no to him, never tell him his ideas are wacky and harmful. Says Diane Ravitch: "Anthony Cody set himself the mission of explaining to Bill Gates why his ideas were wrong and what he should do instead It is a record of Cody's valiant struggle to force the nation's most powerful foundation and richest person to listen to the voice of an experienced teacher. Did Cody succeed? It is hard to know. Even as Cody was debating the Gates Foundation, it was spending billions of dollars to develop and implement the Common Core standard... |
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