Bill Gates

Bill Gates isn’t a teacher, but his foundation is having a major impact on classrooms around the country. This isn’t surprising given Gates’ prominence as a business leader and the foundation’s financing of educational projects totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Gates was rated the most important person in education policy over the previous decade by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. During that time, Gates donated over $1.2 billion to high school reform projects, helped introduce technology to schools in need, and advocated for reforming the American high school system. With over $30 billion in the foundation, Gates is unlikely to slow down anytime soon.

 

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

The Common Core curriculum, which will be adopted by most US states by 2015, has been a hot topic in education reform. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., founder, and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation inspired the change. Hirsch was inspired to create a core curriculum by his studies in written composition. He discovered that background information affects a student’s capacity to understand a book, not only readability. With this method, students will have a predetermined structure for their learning, hopefully providing them with the skills and abilities needed to succeed in the 21st century.

Jonathan Ullmer

A professional conduct tribunal determined Jonathan Ullmer, a teacher at Cecil Jones High School in Southend from 1989 until 2002, had sexual behavior with a male student.

The student said his theatre teacher had favored him, shared a bed with him, and masturbated in front of him. Mr. Ullmer disputed them. A panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency determined his acts to be sexually motivated. A permanent ban on teaching in England. Mr . Jonathan Ullmer accompanied the student to Kent than to the movie in Basildon, the investigation claimed. The charges came after Pupil A secretly videotaped a conversation with his former teacher.”Does [your wife] know about the sexual part of the friendship?” Pupil A asked Mr. Ullmer, according to the report. Mr. Ullmer was a headteacher in Kazakhstan when the charges surfaced in 2017 and he left after settling.

Conclusion

The Common Core curriculum, which will be adopted by most US states by 2015, has been a hot topic in education reform. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., founder, and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation inspired the change. Jonathan Ullmer was a teacher at Cecil Jones High School in Southend from 1989 until 2002.