by Sarah Green | Jun 26, 2014 | News, Teacher Issues
Three hundred teachers and their supports have spoken out about the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, citing its wide influence over the US education system. Activists have a website, Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates, which provides a forum online for teachers to...
by Supporting Education | Mar 26, 2013 | News
Past posts I’ve written on edtech have emphasized the benefits that digital textbooks, iPads, apps, blogs, and other digital tools can have for the classroom. Some educators have other opinions, skeptical of whether these tools are more distracting for students than...
by Supporting Education | Nov 15, 2012 | News
Change for education is a slow difficult one. That’s what Bill Gates would say. Working towards improving education requires making mistakes and learning from them. It means that some philanthropic investments in public schools may prove to be relatively ineffective....
by Supporting Education | Oct 1, 2012 | News
The power of technology in supporting education proves itself once again in a challenge put on by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The competition is called the College Knowledge Challenge and the award is a whopping $2.5 million worth of prizes. So what is this...
