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Chiquitita

(752 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2014, 08:25 AM Feb 2014

Bill Gates is Still Not Making Nice with Teachers

The website Teachers Letters to Bill Gates, gives the top 10 posts that most resonated with teachers and parents in 2013.


"On July 9th, we launched a campaign, in conjunction with the Badass Teachers Association, asking teachers to write to you both to voice their concerns regarding high stakes testing. That day we had 6,959 hits, and we posted approximately 30 letters from public school teachers all over the United States. These teachers were outraged and appealed to you to end high stakes testing.

We have written you 132 letters after your promise to “make nice with teachers,” as posted by the Seattle Times. Although you have not answered one letter to date, your track record has not dissuaded us from our mission, which is much broader than simply soliciting a response from you..."

I like #8 Teachers’ Summer Reading List for Reformy Billionaires: Books to Inspire Billionaires to Change their Reformy Ideas — Multiple Choice Test to Follow


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