REPORT: Bill Gates’ $215 Million Education Investment Was A Massive Flop – IOTW Report

REPORT: Bill Gates’ $215 Million Education Investment Was A Massive Flop

 

 

DC: Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates’ $215 million investment in education was a colossal failure, according to a Friday report by the RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated the funds to three public school districts in Memphis, Tennessee; Pittsburgh and Hillsborough County, Florida, reported The Washington Post. The school districts, as well as four charter management groups, provided more money, boosting the endowment to $575 million.

The project aimed to implement teacher evaluation systems based on students’ test scores, as well as the input of “peer evaluators.” It was not very effective, according to the 587-page study.

“Overall, the initiative did not achieve its stated goals for students, particularly LIM [low-income minority] students,” the study said. “We did not find improvement in the effectiveness of newly hired teachers relative to experienced teachers; we found very few instances of improvement in the effectiveness of the teaching force overall; we found no evidence that LIM students had greater access than non-LIM students to effective teaching; and we found no increase in the retention of effective teachers, although we did find declines in the retention of ineffective teachers in most sites.” more here

13 Comments on REPORT: Bill Gates’ $215 Million Education Investment Was A Massive Flop

  1. @Sippin’ Coffee June 29, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    Duh! Money can’t fix a social problem.

    My exact thoughts. He could have used the money to fix some MS O/S’s and apps.

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  2. As LCD noted, Zuckerberg gave $100M to the Newark, NJ school district. They spent many months and established multiple committees and commissioned studies to determine the best way to spend the money. Ultimately, the whole $100M went to the effort of determining the best way to spend the money, so by the time they decided, there was no money left.

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  3. Huh. Social justice billionaire dollars coupled with obama’s PROMISE program ensuring gangbangers, dope peddlers and wanna be rap artistes remain in school at all costs, and this was a failure? I didn’t see that coming 🙄

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