While Congress is still weighing legislation that could put $500-million into the development of open, online courses, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has stepped up to the plate. The charity is giving $12.9-million to advance technology at community colleges, improving virtual learning environments for both students and teachers.
The [...]
DonorsChoose, which lets givers fund public school teachers’ requests, now offers gift cards. For example, the recipient might choose to help a high school teacher buy fun books for a class library.
In some cases, donations will be matched by the Gates Foundation.
[...]Educated Guess describes how a consortium of California charter schools will spend $60 million in Gates Foundation teacher effectiveness grants.
* A one-year residency program for aspiring teachers;
* A data warehouse of assessments to measure individual students’ growth;
* A performance-based pay system that teacher help design.
Alliance for College-Ready Public [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving planning grants of up to $100,000 each to nine school districts and charter groups to help them win Investing in Innovation, or i3, grants from the U.S. Department of Education.
This should come as no surprise given that Gates has already [...]
In the news this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded several districts and entities grants–a total of $335 million–to explore ways to make teaching more effective. Three participants in NSBA’s Council of Urban School Boards—Pittsburgh, Memphis, Tenn., and Hillsborough County, Fla., received grants to experiment with [...]
From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation web site.
Brenda forwarded this AP article to me while I was on the road.
Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality
SEATTLE — Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some [...]
The $100 million, seven-year grant that Hillsborough schools received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday has the potential to significantly alter the teaching landscape, both in Hillsborough County and nationally.
Its focus on reforming pay structures, evaluation procedures and other matters related to teaching promises to bring [...]
The major papers each add a bit of key information about the just-announced Gates teaching initiative:
Mini RTTT: Federal officials are pushing in much the same direction with a $4.35 billion school-reform grant competition that stresses teacher effectiveness, tied to student achievement. (Gates Foundation gives [...]
IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY: Hillsborough celebrates winning a $100 million grant to reform teacher evaluations, pay, preparation and other aspects of the job from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Times photo, Edmund Fountain)
SPEAKING OF TEACHER QUALITY: Someone has to prepare them, and the Florida Department of [...]
It's official: the Hillsborough County School District has won a $100 million teacher effectiveness grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The news, announced in a midday press release Thursday, caps a 9-month application effort by the district, and puts it squarely on the cutting edge of national education [...]
TAMPA -- It all comes down to a phone call.
At 1:45 pm. Thursday, officials from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have scheduled a news conference to announce which school districts will spearhead a national education reform effort.
Yesterday the Hillsborough County School Board approved a $100 million grant agreement [...]
The secretive folks at the Gates Foundation has been playing cat and mouse for months about which districts applied for -- and were finalists in -- the so-called "deep dive" teacher effectiveness initiative. But there's no hiding it when you're giving out big bucks after having put districts through the' [...]
TAMPA -- The Hillsborough County School Board is expected to vote this afternoon on a final agreement to accept a $100 million teacher effectiveness grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Follow the link to read more.
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[...]NARROWING THE FIELD: A selection committee cuts in half the field of Hernando superintendent applications it will review. Included in the mix is current interim leader Sonya Jackson (shown).
GOING FOR THE GATES: Hillsborough schools are wise to pursue a major Gates Foundation grant so [...]
