Sentences with phrase «gates education philanthropy»

Dillon has performed a yeoman's task of putting together, in a short article, the convoluted inter-workings of the Bill Gates education philanthropy's strategy for overhauling the nation's education policies.

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These include billion - dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions in education, public health, and poverty reduction.

Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces high - performing high - poverty schools.

Gates Targets Schools: Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates plan to broaden their commitment to K - 12 education, after having recently combined their two philanthropies into the nation's wealthiest foundation.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.

The fact that a nonprofit that receives funding from both the Gates Foundation and Microsoft pressures states to adopt for - profit education reforms may raise red flags with some in the philanthropy community, as Microsoft, too, has moved into the education field.

Tom Vander Ark, who has overseen more than $ 1.3 billion in education grantmaking for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will step down from his post as the Seattle - based philanthropy's top education official at the end of the year.

The decision by the Gates Foundation to simultaneously pay for the standards and their promotion is a departure from the way philanthropies typically operate, said Sarah Reckhow, an expert in philanthropy and education policy at Michigan State University.

Last spring, in a much - quoted speech, Bill Gates, whose education philanthropy is the subject of another story in this issue, told the National Governors Association that America's high schools were «obsolete.»

Responding to research from Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center linking student opinions and perceptions to their own academic outcomes, the Center for Effective Philanthropy — funded by a host of donors, including the Gates, Hewlett and Wallace foundations — created YouthTruth «to better understand from students what was and was not working in their high schools in order to give school and district leaders, as well as education funders, better information to inform improvement efforts.»

Following a speech last October in which Bill Gates announced a major shift in the education priorities and strategy of his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is moving to implement its plan to invest the biggest share of its education philanthropy dollars in education networks that come up with their own «locally driven solutions» to improve student achievement.

She says major education philanthropies, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, rely too much on business principles to improve schools.

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What Bill Gates May Wrought in Education Philanthropy: Two years ago, your editor detailed the successes and failures of the school reform efforts undertaken by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Later, he devotes a chapter to economists Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger, whose work on value - added teacher evaluation has powerfully influenced Bill Gates's education philanthropy.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

In 2011, Relay was relaunched as an independently accredited graduate school, and it has attracted funding from a long list of prominent philanthropies (two of which, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation, also support coverage of education at NPR).

Namely, the emergence of several relative newcomers to education philanthropy who focus investments in specific issue areas and apply data - driven business principles for investment, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation, has influenced the nature of education - related giving.

My quarrel with philanthropies like Bill and Melinda Gates and governments is that they spend their money treating the SYMPTOMS of inferior education; supporting health care and food subsidies while ignoring the obvious targets of repressive government and misdirected social adaptation to sustainable lifestyle.