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Discussion How to Best Prepare America's Future Workforce
Ohanian Comment: The WEEK is owned by Felix Dennis, who used to stick to publishing computer and hobby magazines in the United Kingdom. (He made a lot of money off of Kung Fu monthly and then billions more off a computer mail order business.
Note who are appearing on this panel: People who know how to deliver the goods for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its subsidiary, the U. S. Department of Education.
It is not unfair to say that the Gates Foundation's agenda has become the country's agenda in education.
--Mike Petrilli, vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Puget Sound Business Journal, May 15, 2009
Reminder: James H. Shelton III, currently Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, was formerly a program director for the education division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Reminder: Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers, at whose bi-annual convention Bill Gates delivered his keynote speech on July 10, 2010.
NOTE: The initial funding for the AFT Innovation Fund came from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
Observation: Money corrupts. Lots of money corrupts lots.
Reminder: Tony Wagner served as Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for eight years.
NOTE: The Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, of which Tony Wagner is the co-director, was created in 1999 with "a generous five-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
Here is the Change Leadership Group advisory board.
Observation: Money corrupts. Lots of money corrupts lots.
Reminder: Steven Brill delivered 8,000 words of breathless prose for a New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story, The Teachers Unions' Last Stand: How Obama's Race to the Top could revolutionize Public Education in which he noted a network of reformers:
They are working in key positions in school districts and charter-school networks, legislating in state capitals, staffing city halls and statehouses for reform-minded mayors and governors, writing papers for policy groups and dispensing grants from billion-dollar philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates, along with Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Teach for America's founder, Wendy Kopp; and the New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein could be considered the patron saints of the network.
Patron saints, indeed
On an online Q & A at Education Week, L Steven Boone asked, A Look Behind the Curtain" suggests rationale. Has anyone carefully read the research put forth by Duncan to justify RTTT?
This gave Steven Brill a chance to express his enthusiasm for the Gates foundation: . . . The Gates Foundation in particular has done a great deal. . . .
The Gates Foundation as an important research institution.
Observation: Money corrupts. Lots of money corrupts lots.
One would assume that with listed as "Event 1," other events follow. Alas, the US Department of Education press release doesn't concern itself with those.
News Release from the US Department of Education
Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII), will serve as a panelist on The WEEK Magazine's Leadership Panel on preparing American's children to compete in a global marketplace Thursday, Sept. 16 at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C. Panelists will explore and discuss the themes of education, innovation and workforce readiness from a global perspective. Shelton will be joined by AFT President Randi Weingarten, Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education, and Steven Brill, founder, Journalism Online.
This second annual workforce readiness panel discussion is the latest in The WEEK's Leadership Dialogue series, which gathers top executives, government officials and community service experts to discuss important issues of the day.
Event 1
Who : Assistant Deputy Secretary Jim Shelton, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
What : Remarks at The WEEK Magazine Leadership Panel: "Are Children Ready to Compete? How to Best Prepare America's Future Workforce"
When : Thursday, Sept. 16 - 8:30 a.m.
Where : The W Hotel
515 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
— Press Release
US Department of Education
2010-09-15
http://www.ed.gov/news/media-advisories/department-official-serve-panelist-week-magazines-discussion-how-best-prepare-
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