Bill Gates used his immense wealth and connections to influence how trillions of public funds are spent on education in the US. This is how it happened. Support independent research and analysis by joining my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 02:05 Small schools 04:00 Common Core 07:31 Opposition to the Common Core State Standards 12:40 Teacher evaluation & introducing competition among teachers 16:18 Influencing curriculum 18:16 Why is Bill Gates so heavily involved in influencing public school policy? 20:42 End me Gates and his Foundation have been celebrated for endeavors in poverty and health care around world. But when you analyze the publicly available grant database, you’ll see that in the last two decades the Gates Foundation dedicated more than $10+ billion to education agenda in the United States. Gates’ connections and wealth were able to dictate the fate of trillions of tax payers money that followed his investments. Gates became the main architect of US public school policy, bankrolling research, deployment and lobbying campaigns that pushed for a reform after reform according to the whims of the world's most influential elite. Sources [citations available in the video transcript (i.e. subtitles)] [0] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/foundation-fact-sheet [1] https://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/?list=billionaires&sh=208d2042689f [2] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-purchasing-power-parity/country-comparison [3] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfRJx6x764U [5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html [6] https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000320&slug=4011028 [7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/05/what-bill-melinda-gates-did-to-education/ [8] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/02/10/bill-melinda-gates-have-spent-billions-dollars-shape-education-policy-now-they-say-theyre-skeptical-billionaires-trying-do-just-that/ [9] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/annual-letters/annual-letter-2009 [10] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/05/humanity-does-not-need-bill-gates [11] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/12/the-astonishing-amount-of-data-being-collected-about-your-children [12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/06/29/bill-gates-spent-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-to-improve-teaching-new-report-says-it-was-a-bust/ [13] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X16651087 [14] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/rush-hour-protest-by-teachers-to-target-the-gates-foundation/ [15] https://www.marketplace.org/2014/09/15/day-life-data-mined-kid/ [16] https://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11601976.htm [17] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/09/23/common-core-the-gift-that-pearson-counts-on-to-keep-giving/ [18] https://abcnews.go.com/US/bill-gates-education-microsoft-founder-schools-teaching-teachers/story? [19] https://schargel.com/blog/bill-gates-admits-that-small-schools-are-not-the-answer/ [20] https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/eakins-panel-will-help-hillsborough-schools-move-on-from-the-gates-grant/2251811/ [21] http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/sticker-shock-how-hillsborough-countys-gates-grant-became-a-budget-buster/2250988 [22] https://www.chalkbeat.org/2018/6/21/21105193/the-gates-foundation-bet-big-on-teacher-evaluation-the-report-it-commissioned-explains-how-those-eff [23] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Council-of-Great-City-Schools [24] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/bill-gates-is-spending-1-point-7-billion-on-fixing-education-in-the-us.html [25] https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/11/21/why-the-phrase-with-fidelity-is-an-affront-to-good-teaching/ [26] https://apnews.com/article/melinda-gates-north-america-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-us-news-ap-top-news-a4042e82ffaa4a34b50ceac464761957 [27] https://www.chalkbeat.org/2017/10/19/21103585/gates-foundation-to-move-away-from-teacher-evals-shifting-attention-to-networks-of-public-schools [28] https://www.chalkbeat.org/2018/2/6/21104253/with-new-focus-on-curriculum-gates-foundation-wades-into-tricky-territory [29] https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/ [30] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opinion/bill-melinda-gates-foundation.html [31] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gates-education-20160601-snap-story.html [32] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gates-foundation-donates-1b-prioritize-math-education-91736560 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2242.html Credits Music by CO.AG Music and White Bat Audio Follow me: https://twitter.com/The_HatedOne_ https://www.reddit.com/r/thehatedone/ All clips and footage used under Fair Use.