In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online
learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic
institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199
per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended -
learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
Some of the lowest - performing urban public - school systems are also those that spend the most money
per pupil — but despite Catholic schools» record of helping disadvantaged students
learn, and despite their desperate need for financial resources, these
institutions are denied any direct public support.
A private scholarship worth up to $ 500
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institution of higher
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