Gates Foundation
Teacher Preparation
New Gates Teacher-Prep Grants: Some Themes to Watch
Some follow-up thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing the winners of $34 million in grants.
Teaching Profession
Vicki Phillips, Outgoing K-12 Director at Gates, Reflects on Her Tenure, Priorities
Phillips' next move is unclear, but it's likely to be somewhere in the K-12 education world.
Assessment
Gates Foundation Staying the Course on Teacher Effectiveness, High Standards
Bill Gates says his foundation remains committed to its current work in supporting the use of high academic standards and helping teachers improve through evaluation systems that provide useful feedback.
Teaching Profession
Edcamp Continues Expansion With $2 Million From Gates Foundation
The Edcamp Foundation, which supports "un-conferences" of teachers that serve as alternatives to traditional professional development, will receive $2 million from the Gates Foundation.
Teacher Preparation
Gates' Teacher-Prep Grants Will Fund Cooperatives to Scale, Share Practices
The grants will be awarded on a competitive basis.
Teacher Preparation
Gates Foundation to Expand Teacher-Preparation Grantmaking
The foundation hints at new plans to issue grants to improve teacher preparation.
Classroom Technology
Gates Foundation to Keep Betting on Software to 'Revolutionize' Learning
Support for digital and online learning is a major focus of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's 2015 annual letter.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Trouble in Common Core City: Too Many Music Men, Not Enough Librarians
Therefore, the Common Core project itself is also an exercise in fear-mongering about the future of our children, and has its own version of Professor Hill in its chief promoter, Bill Gates.
Ed-Tech Policy
Opinion
Paul Horton: Will the Market Destroy Public Education?
Public schools and public teachers have been subjected to a relentless barrage of negative propaganda for almost thirty years. Many corporations want to force open education markets, Microsoft and Pearson Education to name two of the largest, demand "free markets," "choice," and "free enterprise."
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Questioning Education Reformers' Motives: The Big Taboo
When Lyndsey Layton interviewed Bill Gates a few months ago, she violated one of the major taboos of the education reform discourse.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
A Question for Bill Gates: How Can We Motivate Students When Their Futures Are Bleak?
I am trying to make sense of the education reform project, which seems a mass of contradictions. On the one hand, we have a seemingly utopian project with bold pronouncements about the boundless capacity of all students
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Gates' Excuse for Poor Results of Educational Technology: "Unmotivated Students"
If there is one thing Bill Gates has been a fan of, it is the role of technology in improving education. But recent comments show he may be starting to see that even technology may not be all powerful. And this leads to some deeper questions about the viability of the entire education reform project.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Common Core-Aligned Tests and the New Pearson GED: Failure By Design?
If the pass rates on Common Core tests and the new Common Core-aligned GED plummet, it is because they were designed to do so. If there is an outcome that has been engineered, there must be a reason that outcome is desirable.
Families & the Community
Opinion
Protesters to Gates Foundation: "Divest from Corporate Education Reform"
Bill Gates has it exactly upside down. The innovators are the classroom teachers. The innovators are the students. The innovators are the people working in the schools creating new things every day.
