Cuomo Adds Another Billionaire to 'Reimagine' Public Ed, Post- Pandemic; Beware [View all]
'Beware! Cuomo Adds Another Billionaire to "Reimagine" Post-Pandemic Public Education.' The pandemic is turning into a grand opportunity for the foxes to raid the henhouse under cover of darkness. Diane Ravitch, Common Dreams, May 6, 2020.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he has tapped a second billionaire to “reinvent” education in New York state after the pandemic. According to the New York Post, Cuomo sees distance learning as “the wave of the future,” so who better to enlist as his advisers than Bill Gates and now Eric Schmidt of Google.
Reporter Rebecca C. Lewis of "City and State" just tweeted this report:
Cuomo has announced the third billionaire to lead state efforts amid the coronavirus crisis: former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be focused on new technology utilization. He joins Michael Bloomberg, who’s doing contact tracing, and Bill Gates, who’s doing education
Neither Bill Gates nor Eric Schmidt is an educator. They made their fortune selling software. Selling stuff to schools does not make you an education expert.
Obviously Cuomo thinks that the future of education is online. He seems oblivious to the eagerness of parents and students alike to return to real live teachers in real school buildings. Parents want to return to work, students want to see their teachers and their friends, and they want to return to their activities and sports. Teachers want to see their students. No one but Cuomo—and probably Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt—wants remote learning to become permanent...
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