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Outrages   Search Outrages 9486 in the collection   Bill Gates and Eli Broad Go Gangsta by Gary Stager You may have heard by now that bad boy billionaires, Bill Gates and Eli Broad, are kicking it together. They invested $60 million (lunch money) in the Strong American Schools Project, also known as ED in ’08. They hope that this charitable non-profit organization “will catapult the need for improved public education to the top of the 2008 presidential candidates’ agendas.”(Heszenhorn, 2007) One can hardly criticize an effort to get presidential candidates discussing critical education issues, but it is unclear if Gates and Broad should be steering the agenda. For the rest of the article, go here I — Gary Stager The Pulse: Education's Place for Debate 2007-09-13 http://districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=48233 INDEX OF OUTRAGES Pages: 380    [1] 2 3 4 5 6  Next >>    Last >>

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