Bill and Melinda Gates have spent billions trying to fix U.S. public education, but say it's not having the impact they want. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Throughout the letter, Bill and Melinda provide explanations for why their education initiatives have not seen the same impressive results as their public health initiatives.Melinda says that while the foundation aims to support the ideas of those who have spent their careers working in education, one hurdle has been that many in the field disagree about how to improve student outcomes.
Without research that provides universal solutions, the couple says it has been difficult to fund universal outcomes.And unlike funding a single intervention like vaccination clinics, improving educational outcomes requires supporting students along 13 years of schooling, says Melinda. "The process is so cumulative that changing the ultimate outcome requires intervention at many different stages," she writes.
Bill also writes about how the foundation's billion-dollar bet on Common Core, a set of standards for all students in each grade, fell short of their expectations. He continues, "If there's one lesson we've learned about education after 20 years, it's that scaling solutions is difficult. Much of our early work in education seemed to hit a ceiling. Once projects expanded to reach hundreds of thousands of students, we stopped seeing the results we hoped for.""It became clear to us that scaling in education doesn't mean getting the same solution out to everyone," writes Bill.
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