Bill Gates Takes On Education’s Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games

As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games. Around the country, a new career-minded education standard is slowly edging out the old academic focus on Lord Of the Flies book summaries and five-paragraph essays. So far 42 states have pledged to adopt the (coercively) voluntary standards championed by President Obama, the National Governors Association, and billionaire education crusader, Bill Gates

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Bill Gates Takes On Education’s Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games