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High Tech High 2.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-wanted-backward-compatibility? dept.

theodp writes "A week ago, in his How to Keep America Competitive Op-Ed, Bill Gates touted the Gates Foundation-backed High Tech High as the future of American education. One small problem. Two days earlier, tearful Bay Area High Tech High students — recruited by a Bill Gates video — were told that their school of the future has no future. So would Bill be too embarrassed to lay out his education plan before the Senate Wednesday? Nah. Not too surprisingly though, mentions of High Tech High were MIA in Bill's prepared remarks (PDF), which touted Philly's imaginatively named $65M School of the Future, built under the guidance of Microsoft, as the new school of the future. Committee politicians reportedly embraced virtually all of the suggestions made by Gates."

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  1. /. loathes Bill Gates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot hates Bill Gates. Too bad the venerable Byte magazine declared his mojo VERY strong when they analyzed the copies of the Altair BASIC source code that turned up at Harvard.

    So he has more money than all the slashdotters, and he writes better code too.

    Too bad, so sad.

  2. Re:naturally by ibbo · · Score: 0, Troll

    This sounds almost as horrific as windows for warships. The powers that be are always swayed by bullshit and Bill as we know is a master in this game. He is no doubt trying to get rid of vista as nobody wants to buy it. So you unsuspecting tax paying Americans will finance Bill and Co like it or not.

    I do not for one moment think that M$ will cough this up for the good of its health. There has to be a financial insentive in there someplace.

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  3. Re:H-1Bs are not the solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your solution only works if paying 'real salaries' is profitable(leaving aside the discussion of whether they are or not, job creation depends on it being profitable to pay someone to do work).

    Indentured servitude is always going to be more profitable for businesses than actually paying someone a fair wage. It's not that hiring Americans is not profitable, it's that hiring H1B workers is going to be more profitable.