Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 29, 2012 @03:25AM from the now-where-were-we? dept.

theodp writes "Discussing U.S. education in his 2012 Annual Letter, Bill Gates notes the importance of 'tools and services [that] have the added benefit of providing amazing visibility into how each individual student is progressing, and generating lots of useful data that teachers can use to improve their own effectiveness.' Well, Bill is certainly putting his millions where his mouth is. The Gates Foundation has ponied up $76.5 million for a controversial student data tracking initiative that's engaged Rupert Murdoch's Wireless Generation to 'build the open software that will allow states to access a shared, performance-driven marketplace of free and premium tools and content.' If you live in CO, IL, NC, NY, MA, LA, GA, or DE, it's coming soon to a public school near you."

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Re:Nothing Good can come out of a Murdoch Venture by sco08y · 2012-01-29 08:17 · Score: -1, Redundant

This man and his sprawling NewsCorp media empire have almost single-handedly ruined/corrupted objective journalism, and done so across multiple countries where NewsCorp is active.
How do you feel about Walter Duranty? And his complicity in ignoring the Holodomor? Did you even know that such a person existed? What do you think of the Pulitzer prize committee that basically pretended it hadn't happened for fifty years, and quietly rescinded Duranty's pulitzer when they thought no one would notice?
Is there anything you know of NewsCorp doing that even approaches the level of denying an ethnically targeted mass famine for purely political reasons? Anything?