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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...
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...
Every Tuesday afternoon, 35 of the College’s top administrators and faculty gather in Lamont Forum Room to deliberate the fates of undergraduates whose lives behind Harvard’s ivy gates lie in the balance. With a red and yellow “Meeting In Progress. Please...
Nationally about 1 in 3 high school students quits school. Among black and Hispanic 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...
In 2005, New York used Gates funding to commission the Parthenon Group, a Boston-based consulting firm, to dig deep into its graduation data. The resulting 64-page report, released last October, enabled the nation's largest school district to discern how many kids it was losing, which ones and...