How Bill Gates Bought Public Education (or Go Linux!)
It's pretty scary, the way a rich guy can influence an entire nation to succumb to his whim. It's scarier that the public let him.
Mr. Hess, a frequent blogger on education whose institute received $500,000 from the Gates foundation in 2009 “to influence the national education debates,” acknowledged that he and others sometimes felt constrained. “As researchers, we have a reasonable self-preservation instinct,” he said. “There can be an exquisite carefulness about how we’re going to say anything that could reflect badly on a foundation.”
“Everybody’s implicated,” he
