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Friday, July 4, 2014

Knockout

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:29 am

(Continued from yesterday’s noon post, from  “Block That Metaphor,”
and from “Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside“)

“In one corner are the advocates of the Common Core,
led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which
helped develop the standards and has defended them
against efforts by some states to roll them back. In the
challengers’ corner, a lineup of foundations and
philanthropists…. Other funders in the opponents’ corner
read like a ‘who’s who’ of well-heeled conservative
philanthropists, including Pittsburgh media magnate
Richard Mellon Scaife….”

— “Meet the Funders Fighting the Common Core,”
from Inside Philanthropy , Feb. 10, 2014

Scaife reportedly died this morning.

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