Tag: Gates Foundation

• $$$ and Agendas — Truth For America about Teach For America

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  September 30, 2016

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  Parent Trigger, Teacher Quality

  Where does TFA’s $$$ come from? Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, students, and other key stakeholders. Truth For America is co-hosted by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig and Dr. T. Jameson Brewer. They are joined in episode 13 by Reverend Kyle Boyer, a Philadelphia teacher…

• Debating charter schools: Julian Vasquez Heilig vs. Howard Fuller

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  August 11, 2016

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  African Americans, Charter Schools

  It’s rare that the media brings a balancing perspective to education reformers arguments for anti-democratic, top-down, private control and privatization of our public schools. This week it happened. I debated charters schools with Howard Fuller, Professor and Chairman of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, on Andre Perry’s WBOK 1230 AM #FREECOLLEGE show. We also discuss…

  

• Can we get teacher evaluation right?: Bill Gates, Tom Brady, and Linda Darling-Hammond

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  April 4, 2013

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  Teacher Quality

  Teacher evaluation is one of the most contentious issues in educational policy today. Here on CI I recently discussed how policymakers have ignored the experts on the use of VAM statistical models. I will be honest, I have not often been a fan of how the Gates Foundation has typically gone about education reform (See…