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Seattle Times' Gates-funded Education Lab Blog Experiment by Mercedes Schneider

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Bill Gates lives in Seattle. His money buys experiments there, too. In October 2013, the Seattle Times announced that it had "sought" a grant from the Gates Foundation for a year-long "project" in partnership with Solutions Journalism Network-- a blog called the "Education Lab."One of her examples was a grant to establish the "Education Lab" at the Seattle Times. The Lab is supposed to report on "success" stories. The project has received $530,000 in foundation funding -- $450,000 from the Gates Foundation and $80,000 from the Knight Foundation, a foundation that supports journalism excellence and media innovation .Focusing on "success" is itself a form of bias , Schneider said. Cody added, "What would stories have looked like in the 1960s if reporters covering the Vietnam War were supported with grants that encouraged them to "focus on success"?"

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have additional Master' Degrees in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side Middle School, which (more...)

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