The Educator and the Oligarch

By Anthony Cody,

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Can a teacher challenge the wealthiest man in the world? This is the question Garn Press asked in 2014 when Anthony Cody’s The Educator And The Oligarch was first published. The answer is a resounding “Yes!”

Anthony Cody not only challenged Bill Gates, but also received the 2015 NCTE George…

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1 author picked The Educator and the Oligarch as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The first book written about the Gates Foundation brilliantly unpacks the foundation’s serial, wrong-headed interventions in public education. Written by school teacher Anthony Cody in clear language with compelling argumentation, the book gives voice to the Gates Foundation’s intended beneficiaries: the teachers who say that Bill Gates’s charitable crusade is hurting, not helping, American schools.

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