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Today on Your Call: What do you want to know about the Gates Foundation?

On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about how Gates is influencing the ongoing debate about education reform. Since 2006, it has spent 472-million dollars to remake U.S. higher education, and poured billions of dollars into K-12 related initiatives. What are they trying to do with education reform globally and domestically? Join the conversation and call in with your questions on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Jennifer Ruark, Deputy Managing Editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Charles Piller, investigative reporter with Sacramento Bee

Anthony Cody, educator and writer and the co- founder of Network for public education

Web Resources:

Anthony Cody: Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

LA Times: Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation

The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Gates Effect

West Roxbury Patch: When Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Meddle with Education, Students Lose & Billionaires Gain