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USA TODAY Column: Bill Gates' Tech Worker Lie

USA TODAY Column: Bill Gates' Tech Worker Lie

From USA Today: Business executives and politicians endlessly complain that there is a “shortage” of qualified Americans and that the U.S. must admit more high-skilled guest workers to fill jobs in STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math. This claim

Layoffs Prove the Deceit of Amnesty

Layoffs Prove the Deceit of Amnesty

The shocking announcement that Microsoft is cutting 18,000 jobs is still sinking in. Most of those employees do not have a realistic chance of obtaining as good a job as the one they are losing. In the United States, the number of engineering jobs

In Response to Buffett, Gates, and Adelson

In Response to Buffett, Gates, and Adelson

To Mr. SHELDON G. ADELSON, Mr. WARREN E. BUFFETT, and Mr. BILL GATES, As billionaires, I would imagine your view of immigration reform is much different than the view of a guy like me who is obviously much farther down

NYT: Common Core is Wedge Election Issue for GOP

NYT: Common Core is Wedge Election Issue for GOP

Though the Common Core initiative was once dismissed as a little-known and tedious education policy issue, the New York Times says that the nationalized academic standards have grown to be a central electoral issue that is separating establishment Republicans from

John Calipari: End One-and-Done

John Calipari: End One-and-Done

Kentucky coach John Calipari enters the Final Four with a majority-freshman roster. That once would have made Kentucky a lock to return to the Final Four in the coming years. Now it means that Calipari will have to recruit a

More Parents Choose Homeschooling Due to Common Core

More Parents Choose Homeschooling Due to Common Core

As Common Core champions like Jeb Bush, Bill Gates, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continue to attack parents, teachers, and taxpayers for what they claim are “myths” spread about the centralized standards initiative, many parents across the nation are

Bill Gates: Common Core Opponents 'Shrouded in Myths'

Bill Gates: Common Core Opponents 'Shrouded in Myths'

In an op-ed in USA Today Wednesday, Bill Gates writes that the Common Core State Standards are to be “commended” because they will “improve education for millions of students” and that arguments against the standards are “shrouded in myths.” After

Common Core: How 'Nonprofits' Reaped Millions

Common Core: How 'Nonprofits' Reaped Millions

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) proponents frequently use the talking point that the standards initiative was “state-led.” A group of governors (National Governors Association Center) and state school officers are often said to have coordinated the standards. A closer look,