Dear Friends, 1,800. It felt so good to be “back on track” with 1,800 educators at the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education last month in San Diego. For…
Dear Friends, I’m learning a lot about math lately, something my 4th grade teacher would be amused by! That year I was 110 pages behind by December break. And today, more…
Dear Friends, As we start the process of rebuilding, new research from Zearn adds insight to the urgent need to address unfinished learning stemming from the pandemic. Zearn (study) tracked…
Dear Friends, As we all struggle to open schools in the face of omicron and address student learning loss over the short term, school leaders face a unique challenge—parents do…
The 11 grantees of the Gates Foundation’s first U.S. education Grand Challenge will design and implement innovative solutions to make algebra more accessible and relevant to students of color, English…
As a foundation, we see a tremendous opportunity to use this moment in time to not only address the learning impacts of COVID-19, but to explore new ways to increase…
This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing an investment of more than $10 million to launch the Charter Students with Disabilities Pilot Community.