Tag: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Guess who testified against SB193

February 20, 2013 1 Comment

The Heartland Institute’s Joy Pullman recently released a bomb-shell article, entitled “Education Policies Led by Gates, Not States?”  It blows a large hole in the frequently cited myth that the Common Core initiative was “state-led.” Pullman quotes Jay Greene, who runs the University of Arkansas’ department of education reform as saying: The Gates Foundation completely […]

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Indiana ELA Standards “Clearly Superior”

January 20, 2013 1 Comment

Read Heather Crossin’s January 16th, Indianapolis Star letter to the editor, entitled Corporate interests behind Common Core. She sets the record straight about the finding of the Fordham Institute report, “The State of State Standards – and the Common Core in 2010,” which categorized Indiana’s English Language Arts Standards as “clearly superior” to those of […]

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