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...Bill and Melinda Gates, backed by more than $30 billion of their own funds and an additional $31 billion of Warren Buffett's, can do the same. Like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation rightly looks to technology for the breakthroughs that can end extreme poverty on a global basis. Its original focus has been on health technologies, but now the foundation is expanding to agriculture, water and other areas that are also critical in the fight against poverty...
...When Melinda Gates listens, she leans in toward the speaker with rapt concentration, her eyes wide open, drinking in information. If she's visiting high school classrooms, as she was last month in Chicago, she doesn't hesitate to crouch down, in her heels and navy blue pantsuit, to get on eye level with a seated student and patiently ask questions. What she listens for are answers to some of the most vexing questions in public education: What does it take to turn a failing, urban high school into one that prepares students for higher education? How do you engage...
...Gates was in town to visit three high schools in the city's South Side, and check up on an investment. Since 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $66 million to improve Chicago schools, including $21 million last year alone on the city's new High School Transformation program. Two of the three schools on the day's agenda had embarked on this transformation...
...TIME is co-sponsoring a national summit on the dropout crisis in Washington, led by Civic Enterprises and in conjunction with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MTV, and the National Governors Association. To learn more and find out what you can do in your community, visit www.silentepidemic.org...
...students, the rate is closer to 50%. For decades, school districts obscured the hemorrhaging with sleight of hand--using misleading formulas to calculate graduation rates and not bothering to track the kids who fell through the cracks. Getting a more honest accounting became a top priority for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was instrumental in persuading the Governors of all 50 states to agree in 2005 to start measuring graduation rates in a fair and consistent way. Ask Melinda Gates to name the foundation's top achievement in education so far, and she doesn't hesitate to answer, "Getting...