Setting the terms of the debate -

Interesting piece in the NYTimes this morning about the Gates advocacy work in education -

“It’s Orwellian in the sense that through this vast funding they start to control even how we tacitly think about the problems facing public education,” said Bruce Fuller, an education professor at the University of California, Berkeley, 

Click here for the full article -

It's very discouraging for me that Gates, et. al. have essentially framed the debate by which we can discuss education reform, primarily because they are completely wrong. In 2005 Gates  understood this, to this day I use this quote from his speech at the National Governor's Forum -

“America’s high schools are obsolete,” Gates said. “By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they’re broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools — even when they’re working as designed — cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.”

Gates can't possibly believe today what he believed in 2005, simply because the policies he promotes, and the debate parameters he's set, do not address the fundamental issue.   The way we educated is based on a Industrial model and it's completely obsolete.