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Up until recently, Gates, who has three children ages 4 to 11, avoided the public spotlight, but that's begun to change. This year both she and her husband plan to take a visible role in making education a bigger issue in the 2008 election. "Getting it on the Presidential...
Her focus for Chicago? How to get more public school students - 92% of whom are minority and 86% poor - ready and bound for college. Only half of the city's high school freshmen make it to graduation day four or five years later, though the rate has inched up from...
But the task is monumental, as Gates could see. She and Allan Golston, the foundation's president of U.S. programs, visited two large public high schools, one with a high graduation rate and the other with a long history as a dropout factory. But even at John Hope College Prep...
At John Hope High, Gates and Golston visited a biology class bursting with fancy new lab kits, books, DVDs and other materials. At Wendell Phillips Academy High School, she saw an English class working its way through pristine copies of To Kill a Mockingbird. The new materials for teaching science...
Kids are getting coached as well. At Phillips Academy, Gates talked to students in a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a daily class that teaches them how to how to study, read and think more effectively. Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets...