- A seven-year education initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation centered on improving teacher effectiveness didn’t work, according to a new report from RAND.
- The initiative, called the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching, didn’t improve student graduation rates or schools’ ability to retain effective teachers.
- The Gates Foundation believes that while the initiative fared poorly overall, it led to “critical conversations” and “drove change” across the country.
A seven-year, nearly $1 billion education initiative centered on improving teaching quality in low-income schools — and bankrolled in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — largely failed, according to read more >>>
Source:: BusinessInsider.Com