... in capital funds to restructure large schools into small ones only to be told later by Gates that the idea didn't really work. This time around we will not be getting such generous help from Gates. ... , which schools get closed and replaced with charter schools, etc. But it's not nearly enough for the Gates Foundation. As we've written before, Race to the Top offers an intellectually ...

... Live] "Hello President Obama, great speech you just gave there. I'm Vicki Phillips, head of the Gates Domestic Education Program (but you already knew that!). Hey, how are all the former Gates employees doing at the DOE? I was just chatting with my good friend, Mr. Aw-Shucks Duncan, and we had this really great idea: how about if we just get rid of ...

... and habitats teeming with wildlife and fauna, inspired a national wilderness-protection movement. GATES OF THE ARCTIC visits this seldom-seen natural treasure, one of the wildest and most remote ... Reakoff, who mixes fur-trapping and moose-hunting with his day job as a tour guide. GATES OF THE ARCTIC also explores the importance of unspoiled public lands to civic democracy. Three intertwined journeys ...

... improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay. In exchange, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is handing them the biggest pile of cash it has spent on education reform in about a decade. The foundation announced $290 million in grants to the four groups on Thursday, ...

... has moved so smoothly near the front of the group for so long. Because he is well-liked by the powers-that-be, Gates has benefited from that greatest of all favors – having his history cleansed by the ... to override the evidence or because he was politicizing the evidence. A Kremlinologist by training, Gates was one of the last American hardliners to comprehend the changes taking place in the ...

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