The Bill Gates and Big Philanthropy Problems—and Ours
Money, including when it comes in the form of big donations, can solve a lot of problems, yes. Most of us would take it, along with the problems. The deceptive,…
Common Core
Common Core Is Failing American Schools
Kali Fontanilla, former California high school teacher and Capital Research Center senior research fellow, talks about the absolute failure of Common Core, the surge of home schooling, the attempts to…
The Gates Foundation’s Common Core Disaster
The Gates Foundation played a crucial role in making the vision of Common Core a reality. Yet after an entire decade of implementation, “no convincing evidence exists that the standards…
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: The Hydra
The world of K–12 education policy has long been dominated by philanthropic foundations. Much of the education “reform” sweeping across America has been financed and pushed by elite, well-heeled foundations.
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Equity Initiatives
The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 2019 New York Times series turned grade school curriculum, might never have seen the light of day if not for the MacArthur Foundation. In 2014,…
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Education
The world of K–12 education policy has long been dominated by philanthropic foundations. It was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that pushed for Common Core, the national education standards…
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Youth Activism
The foundations’ goals are political, and schools give them easy access to society’s most impressionable. But foundations relentlessly seek to shape children’s politics both inside and outside of the classroom.
Foundations Destroying American Public Education: Two Steps Ahead
K–12 schools are run by thirteen thousand independent school districts, but foundations have also perfected the art of implementing national political agendas through local government. Financially, this is a brilliant…