The educator and the oligarch
Subtitle: a teacher challenges the Gates Foundation
By: Anthony Cody
Publisher: Garn Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781942146001
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Business and education; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Privatization in education; Curricula; Education; Education and state; Standards
Other titles: Teacher challenges the Gates Foundation
Description: "From the Common Core to test-based teacher evaluation systems cropping up around the country, to the rapid expansion of semi-private charter schools, the Gates Foundation has had a huge, largely invisible influence on public education in 21st century America. Can a teacher challenge the wealthiest man in the world? Anthony Cody, who spent 24 years working in the high poverty schools of Oakland, California, has done so here. Education reform is the top domestic priority for the Gates Foundation, and this philanthropic organization has poured billions of dollars into reshaping American schools. This money has paid for research, advocacy, and a whole non-profit industry aligned with the Gates agenda. According to Cody, their chosen path of data-driven reform, centered on high stakes tests, educational technology and market-based competition between schools, threatens great harm to public education." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197).
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The assault on public education by Bill Gates; title: Part 2. Dialogue with the Gates Foundation; title: Part 3. Gates' education dystopia; title: Part 4. Accountability for Gates?