What’s Good For Bill Gates Turns Out To Be Bad For Public Schools
And, actually, bad for Microsoft too, as we learned recently
by David Morris
Schools have a lot to learn from business about how to improve performance, declared Bill Gates in an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. He pointed to his own company as a worthy model for public schools.
…And now, just as public school systems have widely adopted the Microsoft model in order to win the Race to the Top, it turns out that Microsoft now realizes that this model has pushed Microsoft itself into a Race to the Bottom… Continue reading at Common Dreams.