Educational Technology

August 12, 2011

Wakeup Call For The Gates Foundation: Think Bigger!

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By STEVE DENNING, Forbes

The economic future of the country depends on how well we educate our children. At present, the U.S. doesn’t even rank in the top 30 countries in the world in education status and is well behind other developed countries like Belgium and Canada. About a decade ago, the Gates Foundation set out to see what could be done. Problem is, what is being done is not enough. In an interesting interview in the Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates recently talked with Jason Riley about what his foundation has learned after investing some $5 billion in education philanthropy. The experience has been sobering. “It’s hard to improve public education,” says Gates. “That’s clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you’re picking stocks, you wouldn’t pick this one.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/2011/07/29/wakeup-call-for-the-gates-foundation-think-bigger/

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