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The Educator and the Oligarch: A 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. The Gates agenda has largely become the guiding policy for the Obama administration's Department of Education. Gates-sponsored projects like the Common Core have support of major corporations, the Chamber of Commerce, and Republican leaders like Jeb Bush as well. In this book, that agenda is subjected to a detailed critique. In part one, Cody describes what he calls "the assault on public education" waged by Gates and his foundation. In part two, we find Cody in direct conversation with representatives of the Gates Foundation, describing in detail the flaws in their approach, and offering constructive alternatives. Part three explores the dystopian future Gatesian reforms are bringing into our schools. In the closing section, Cody turns the tables on Gates, holding him and his foundation accountable for the impact they have had on our children and schools. In doing so, he raises disturbing questions about the growing role corporate philanthropies such as the Gates Foundation are playing in public policy, and the dangers we face when market forces are made central to our educational system.

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EAN: 9781942146001

UPC: 9781942146001

ISBN: 9781942146001

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Book Title: The Educator and the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenge

Item Length: 22.9 cm

Number of Pages: 212 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: The Educator and the Oligarch: a Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation

Publisher: Garn Press

Publication Year: 2014

Subject: Social Sciences, Education, Teaching

Item Height: 229 mm

Item Weight: 290 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Anthony Cody

Subject Area: Social Services

Item Width: 152 mm

Format: Paperback

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