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<\/strong>Ten years and $5 billion into his philanthropic push for school reform, Bill Gates is doing some soul-searching.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s been about a decade of learning,\u201d he says, and acknowledges that education isn\u2019t only a civil rights issue but also \u201can equity issue and an economic issue\u2026It\u2019s so primary.\u00a0 In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there\u2019s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the first large-scale programs launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was the establishment of 20 small high schools in several metropolitan areas, the idea being that smaller schools would translate to fewer behavior problems, better attendance, and more one-on-one interaction with adults.\u00a0 \u201cThe overall impact of the intervention, particularly the measure we care most about\u2014whether you go to college\u2014it didn\u2019t move the needle much\u2026maybe 10% more kids, but it wasn\u2019t that dramatic,\u201d Mr. Gates admits.\u00a0 The program was shut down, but Mr. Gates believes that the students who attended did get \u201ca better deal\u201d than those in larger public schools.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gates warns against overestimating the potential power of philanthropy, however.\u00a0 Various government entities spend $600 billion a year<\/em> on education, while the combined total that has ever<\/em> been spent by philanthropists on education would not even add up to $10 billion. This \u201cdrop in the bucket\u201d reality has made foundations like the Gates Foundation re-think their focus when it comes to helping education reform.<\/p>\n

Instead of trying to buy reform with school-level investments, a new goal is to leverage private money in a way that redirects how public education dollars are spent.\u00a0 Gates points out that compared to the money spent on research and development in the pharmaceutical and information-technology sectors, educational research and development is practically nonexistent.\u00a0 This can be attributed to the lack of a clear organization or entity that sees education research as their main business investment.\u00a0 This is the gap that the Gates Foundation is seeking to fill.<\/p>\n

Since it is a well-known fact that teachers have greater influence over the quality of a student\u2019s education more than any other factor, including class size and per-pupil spending, the Foundation has been working on a personnel system that can reliably measure teacher effectiveness. \u00a0The five-year, $335 million project will examine whether aspects of effective teaching\u2014classroom management, clear objectives, diagnosing and correcting misconceptions\u2014can be systematically measured.\u00a0 The research includes studying more than 13,000 lessons taught by 3,000 elementary school teachers in seven urban school districts as well as interviews with students to find out what they think works or doesn\u2019t work in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gates is hoping that teachers will buy-in to this project, noting that teachers are the key to long-term reform.\u00a0 He knows this part of his dream is an uphill battle, however.\u00a0 When asked whether or not the National Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers have any incentive to back school reforms that help kids but diminish union power, Mr. Gates questioned the scope of that power.\u00a0 He noted that the U.S. has both union-strong states and right-to-work states, but that \u201cthe educational achievement of K-12 students is not at all predicted by how strong the union rules are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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