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Bill Gates, whose private foundation has spent upward of $170 million for the development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards, is asking teachers to help parents understand the standards, hoping this effort will defeat critics of the centralized

As a public school educator in Louisiana who is opposed to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), I participated in a panel discussion on February 4th for the West St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce. The panel was composed of two

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

Microsoft moved Tuesday to reboot for a mobile future, naming Indian-born Satya Nadella chief executive as founder Bill Gates shed his title of chairman for a more hands-on role. Gates “will devote more time to the company” in his new

In his appearance on Tuesday’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on NBC, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates debuted a “viral video” to his charitable foundation’s annual letter…

According to a new YouGov.com poll of the most admired people in the world, Hillary Clinton unsurprisingly ranks under Pope Francis and Billy Graham. What is surprising is that Hillary is less popular even than George W. Bush and Rush

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have “each contributed $25,000” to Washington’s Initiative 594, which would effectively ban private gun sales in the state. The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR) is pushing the initiative, claiming it “makes

The medical licenses of two abortionists in Maryland have been suspended following the death of Maria Santiago, a 38-year old woman who stopped breathing and suffered cardiac arrest while she was left unattended immediately after her abortion in February. The

An international conference on maternal health that will feature HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Melinda Gates as speakers, has also tapped euthanasia advocate Peter Singer and late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart to train family planning supporters. C-FAM, an international pro-family organization,

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s foray into politics has gone about as smoothly as his company’s IPO.  His advocacy group, which seeks the passage of immigration legislation, stumbled out of the gates by falsely claiming Bill Gates was on its board.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

The second richest person on the planet, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has used the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $37 billion to fund philanthropic interests the world over. But Gates’s investment of $173 million to shape and promote a uniform

Below is the third part of an interview series with “Wiseguy” actor Ken Wahl … Gary Graham: I’ve heard said that the Liberals have taken over the Media, the Hollywood community, and Academia. Ken Wahl: Absolutely.  What’s left …? Graham: Talk

The 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, to be held on July 11, is intended to “mobilize global policy” to assure that 120 million women and girls are afforded family planning, contraceptives and other information.  Sponsors of the event want more

President Obama’s latest campaign e-mail may not be his most effective, but it’s certainly his most ironic. In it, he essentially admits that while nobody will support him thanks to his accomplishments, they should do so because he stands for

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has withdrawn its support for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a report by the liberal corporate free speech police site, Republic Report: Republic Report’s Suzanne Merkelson covered how the Bill and Melinda

US President Barack Obama called Saturday for higher tax rates on wealthy Americans, saying the current system of tax breaks for top income earners was unfair. He pointed out that under the current system people like billionaire investor Warren Buffett

CNN’s Gloria Borger’s thinking is so caught up in the liberal paradigm of “class,” as in class warfare, she sees everything in that light, while projecting it onto the right to provide cover for Obama’s use of class warfare. Evidently,