Bill Gates: Common Core Not a Federal Takeover of Schools
Sunday, 16 Mar 2014 10:51 AM
By Greg Richter
Microsoft founder Bill Gates says opposition to the Common Core education standards is
based on a lack of understanding, and he thinks it eventually will be a
"big win" for education in the United States.
The controversial new standards
for math and language have been adopted by 45 states with $4 billion in funding
from President Barack Obama's stimulus package. But some of those states,
including New York, have begun to back away as
teachers and parents have complained they are being poorly implemented.
Conservative groups have
complained that the national standards amount to a federal takeover of the
education system.
But in a pre-recorded interview
aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week,"
Gates insisted that isn't so. He and other business groups have produced an ad
advocating implementation of Common Core.
"It doesn't tell you how to
teach. It's not a federal takeover. Nobody's pushing for that," Gates told
ABC.
Like the diverse group opposing
Common Core, some unlikely bedfellows favor it. In addition to businesses,
President Barack Obama, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush back the
tougher standards.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have produced TV
ads aimed at conservatives who oppose Common Core. They are set to begin airing
on Fox News Channel and other outlets on Sunday.
"I think it's such an
exciting thing to have high standards, to have quality standards, and to have
consistent standards," Gates said. "I'm thrilled this is moving
forward and disappointed that through confusion and various groups, its
implementation is actually at risk in some states."
Randi Weingarten, president of the
American Federation of Teachers,
recently said, "You think the Obamacare implementation is bad? The
implementation of Common Core is worse."
Gates pointed out the rollout is
being done on a state-by-state basis and admitted, "In some locations they
have a legitimate point."
In New York, legislators are calling for a
two-year moratorium after test scores sank there. Only a third of elementary
and middle school students passed.
"When we go to higher
standards there is a transition where you'll see the way we've been teaching
math is not good enough," Gates said.
America is falling behind other countries because, even though
those countries teach less per year, they make sure students understand what
they are taught, he said. In the United States, students are taught
a larger amount, but "you're getting shallow knowledge on a regular
basis."
Microsoft
Dina
Dublon is a director at the Microsoft
Corporation, and an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
Note: Rhonda Weingarten
(Randi) is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a
director at the Drum Major Institute for
Public Policy, a director at the Economic
Policy Institute, the president of the American
Federation of Teachers, and was the president of the United Federation of Teachers.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Diane
S. Ravitch was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
an assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education, is a critic for the Common Core educational standards, and a research professor at New
York University.
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Race to the Top
is a grant program from the U.S.
Department of Education, and encourages the adoption of the Common Core educational standards.
Jeb Bush
is a supporter for the Common Core
educational standards, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Dianne
Feinstein is a member of the Alfalfa
Club, a U.S. Senate senator, and
married to Richard C. Blum.
Richard
C. Blum is married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
Susan
E. Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and married to Ian O. Cameron.
Ian
O. Cameron is married to Susan E.
Rice, and was the executive producer for This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
George
Stephanopoulos is the anchor for This
Week with George Stephanopoulos, and was the chief Washington correspondent for the ABC News.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a director at Bayer AG, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
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Helmut
Panke is a supervisory board member for Bayer AG, and a director at the Microsoft Corporation.
William H. Gates
III is a co-founder & technology adviser & director for the Microsoft Corporation, and a co-chair
for the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
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