Examining the Results of Gates Foundation's Small-School Initiative

The Institute for Education and the Arts posts this article about the progress of the Gates Foundation’s small schools initiatives.

FOUNDATION’S SMALL-SCHOOLS EXPERIMENT HAS YET TO YIELD BIG RESULTS
Linda Shaw, The Seattle Times, November 5, 2006

“Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation outgoing Executive Director of Education Giving Tom Vander Ark admits that his group's efforts to promote small schools since 1999 have proven more complicated than initially envisioned, although he believes most of the grant-winning schools are better off today than they were before they reformed. The foundation now is focusing on giving high schools more instructional support, rather than simply making them autonomous.”

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