20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core":

[Mc Mike]

32. +1. Helps fill the void of Madflor's absence.

2 from Palast:

Mr. high stakes testing, l'il bush, had to take a high stakes test once, to get into the Air Nat'l Guard during Vietnam. He scored 25 out of 100, one point above 'too dumb to fly'. He thought NCLB testing was a brilliant notion. This speaks to your post #24 here, Hi, in spades.

Gates backs Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights enforcement by the WTO. He realized that WTO TRIPs enforcement could be destroyed on all issues, if attacked at their weakest point. Which was TRIPs restrictions against cheap AIDS drugs for Africa. So his foundation put money into a high profile campaign of philanthropic donations fighting AIDS in Africa, while his foundation simultaneously invested hundreds of millions in drug company stocks. That way, he keeps his Intellectual property rights safe, and benefits financially from the AIDS crisis's parasitic middle-man, big PHARMA, at the same time. Just another indicator that his foundation's education 'philanthropy' is really about him trying to get his already obscenely rich hands on taxpayers' public school dollars. SOP for billionaires.