Gates Foundation Dispenses 400 Million/Year to Education

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent discussion-list post “Gates Foundation Dispenses 400 Million/Year to Education” [Hake (2012b)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: My previous post “Google Donates One Million Dollars to Local Schools” [Hake (2012a)] at http://bit.ly/KMcNNw ended with “BTW: Gene Glass (2012) at http://bit.ly/KcWqIs has an insightful essay ‘High Button Shoes and Education Reform’ regarding support of education by organizations such as Google and the Gates Foundation, which seem to have more money than knowledge of education.” Here I:

(a) quote part of Glass’ essay in which he suggests that the mind-set that lies behind the Gates Foundation allocations “comes about from drinking the kool-aid that the ‘market’ will lead America’s schools to the promise land”; and point to:

(b) the National Education Policy Center’s (NEPC) http://nepc.colorado.edu/ first runner-up 2011 “Bunkum Award” http://bit.ly/PcBUvF to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “Learning About Teaching”; and

(c) Jesse Rothstein’s (2011) “Review of 'Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the [Gates Foundation's] Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project’ ” at http://bit.ly/M55qRA, in which he concludes “The MET results are sobering about the value of student achievement data as a significant component of teacher evaluations.”
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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REFERENCES [All URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 18 June 2012]
Hake, R.R. 2012a. “Google Donates One Million Dollars to Local Schools,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/KMcNNw. Post of 17 Jun 2012 14:45:21-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog “Hake'sEdStuff” at http://bit.ly/KdQZZF with a provision for comments.

Hake, R.R. 2012b. “Gates Foundation Dispenses 400 Million/Year to Education,” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/Mmc1aB. Post of 18 Jun 2012 10:33:07-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion lists.