Question: Are all lives really equal and do they all require measurement to determine their value?
Answer: The children of the ELITE do NOT require measurement. The children who go to private schools are NOT subjected to the same testing regimen. The premise is: We can assume THESE children already have the IQ they need to excel beyond the STANDARD. Of course, this is NOT true, but the only possible viewpoint of the elite ruling oligarchs.
Bill and Melinda Gates are driving their Eugenics agenda beyond children and are now imposing their power of ‘selection of the fittest’ onto teachers, administrators, and schools as well. Bill and Melinda Gates are working on a project to try to standardize and basically “clone” great teachers, known as the MET Project.
Propaganda: Bill Gates pretends to be concerned about teachers not being humiliated as in this Op Ed published in the NY Times.
“Unfortunately, some education advocates in New York, Los Angeles and other cities are claiming that a good personnel system can be based on ranking teachers according to their “value-added rating” — a measurement of their impact on students’ test scores — and publicizing the names and rankings online and in the media. But shaming poorly performing teachers doesn’t fix the problem because it doesn’t give them specific feedback.” ~ Bill Gates, Shame is Not the Solution, New York Times
Fact: The requirements of the Measurement of Effective Teaching [MET] project created by Bill and Melinda Gates do not match this rhetoric and are poised like a guillotine over the necks of America’s public school teachers.
Fact: The MET project – Measurement of Effective Teaching – uses surveillance, forcing teachers to be video taped, then analyzes these video tapes in an attempt to “clone & script” what Gates perceives to be “great teaching”. Teachers and education leaders know this is not possible, due to all of the variables that create unique human beings. The Gates Foundation considers humans the same way it views software — code to be manipulated and controlled! To Gates, everything becomes a number, depersonalized. Edu in Review asks and answers: Is Good Teaching Quantifiable? Bill Gates Thinks So
“Every aspect of a student’s academic production is assigned a number. Tests get a percentage, papers and essays get letter grades. These letter grades are in turn averaged and become GPAs. Standardized tests place students in percentiles. These numbers become the foremost measure of a student’s abilities.
But how do we quantify a teacher’s abilities? Is the performance of their students enough?
It’s been shown that quality of teaching makes one of the biggest impacts on student performance. That’s why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching a three-year study to determine the components of effective teaching. “Do they work longer hours? Do they break the classroom down more?” Asks Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The study is called Measures of Effective Teaching, and will evaluate 3,000 teachers from across the nation. The project will cost half a billion dollars.
The teachers will be evaluated by video, self-reporting, student questionnaires, and the performance of their students on standardized tests. While much controversy swirls around the usefulness and fairness of standardized tests, which are to receive a massive overhaul in the next five years, Gates insists that measurably is key to improving education. “If you want something to be excellent, it can’t go unmeasured.” The study aims to deconstruct good teaching, presumably so that it can be reproduced elsewhere. “We’ll know more about what a great teacher looks like,” says Gates.”
Fact: Using standardized test results and teacher evaluations, Bill and Melinda Gates are building a database that will be used against children and teachers as noted here by Leonie Haimson of Parents Across America in the Huffington Post:
“This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the NY Board of Regents approved the state’s sharing of student and teacher information with a new national database, to be funded by the Gates Foundation, and designed by News Corp’s Wireless Generation. Other states that have already agreed to share this data, according to the NY State Education Department, include Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Louisiana and Massachusetts.
All this confidential student and teacher data will be held by a private limited corporation, called the Shared Learning Collaborative LLC, with even less accountability, which in July was awarded $76.5 million by the Gates Foundation, to be spent over 7 months. According to an earlier NYT story, $44 million of this funding will go straight into the pockets of Wireless Generation, owned by Murdoch’s News Corp and run by Joel Klein.” ~ Leonie Haimson, Confidential Student and Teacher Data to be Provided to LLC Run by Gates and Murdoch
Fact: Teachers and children are being dehumanized and treated like animals. They are being mustered, corralled, sorted, branded, domesticated, stigmatized, and culled — treated as commodities that are dispensable.
“Teachers have been dehumanized and domesticated,” said University of Redlands professor Susan Porter. “Just show up and go through the scripted learning...
Widespread disrespect for educators, children and their families has led to the demise of public schooling, she said. Students learning English are given labels that stigmatize them, impair their learning and damage their perception of themselves.
“How would you like to be a ‘lep?’” she asked, referring to the Limited English Proficiency label. “These are children we’re talking about.” ~ Education Experts Cite Flaws in System