Bill Gates still doesn't get it.
Stephen Krashen,
SKrashen,
Oct 22, 2017
The big story here is "the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will step back from its traditional education reform agenda to instead invest close to $1.7 billion over the next five years on new initiatives that include a focus on building networks of schools." But as Stephen Krashen says in this short riposte, "The main problem in American education is not poor curricula, or lack of data. The problem is poverty." He's right. "While we can always improve, " he writes, "there is nothing seriously wrong with our schools and our teachers. Our overall scores are unspectacular because our rate of child poverty is so high, the highest among economically advanced countries." We know this. But poverty is exactly the problem the richest man in the world doesn't want to address.
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