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  1. Mar 8, 2018 · Education reform. Bill Gates. K-12 education. Betsy DeVos. Philanthropy and nonprofits. The cycle of overpromising and disappointment has left donors, politicians and policymakers looking to ...

  2. Oct 6, 2014 · Gates felt obliged to break up America’s high schools because they were so bad. Smaller schools were supposed to attack the problems of low student achievement and high dropout rates by...

  3. Jan 12, 2021 · David Perry writes that throughout the pandemic, the American education system has been falling behind, instead of building capacity for the next year.

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  4. Feb 10, 2020 · Bill and Melinda Gates have spent billions to shape education policy. Now, they say, they’re ‘skeptical’ of ‘billionaires’ trying to do just that. - The Washington Post. This article was ...

  5. Jun 28, 2023 · Brad Nettles. Those believers suffered the most when the school’s charter was yanked in April. Over the past six months, The Post and Courier interviewed more than two dozen Gates families,...

  6. May 5, 2021 · The Gates Foundation began its first big effort in education reform about two decades ago with what it said was a $650 million investment to break large, failing high schools into smaller schools.

  7. Feb 27, 2005 · Using words such as “ashamed” and “appalled” to describe his reaction to the failure rates for students, Microsoft’s co-founder called America’s high schools broken, flawed and ...

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