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Two representatives of the Seattle-based foundation were on hand to observe the vote. In all, the foundation today is expected to announce four grants for teacher-effectiveness initiatives nationwide. Pittsburgh's proposal was jointly developed by the...
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There are many families in our country that have a family member who has been affected by the crippling disease of polio. Polio survivors tell their stories with a great deal of passion of the pain and lifestyle changes that polio has inflicted on them.
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Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics Rajiv Shah, is going to be named to head the Agency for International Development, sources familiar with the choice said Tuesday. Shah, 36, is a medical doctor who worked for the Bill...
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The U.S. spends $8 billion a year on global health — only a fraction of 1 percent of its total budget, but five times more than what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spends. "So we often work together," Bill Gates tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "Only...
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In what was billed as his first major speech on agriculture, Gates chided critics who he said are “instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity” and ignore the challenges to food production posed by climate change. “They act as if there is no emergency,...
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Transforming how people use computers may have been the easy part...Over the past three years, his foundation has committed $1.4 billion toward agricultural development, funding projects ranging from breeding higher-yielding plants to helping African...
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Forced to do more with less, Chief Financial Officer Alexander Friedman came up with an unusual plan to use $400 million — not to give away but to lend and invest...The financial crisis prompted some new thinking inside the world's largest private charity.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools has asked the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to contribute $50 million toward an $85 million-plus campaign to produce better teachers. The effort would include pay-for-performance, extra money for teachers taking on high-need...
Winners of the top-level grants are districts in Hillsborough County, Fla.; Memphis, Tenn.; Omaha; and Pittsburgh; as well as a group of Los Angeles charter schools. Five other districts, including Denver, will receive the foundation's accelerator grants.
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The Pittsburgh Public Schools has been selected to be one of a handful of districts to participate in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $500 million initiative to improve teacher effectiveness. Superintendent Mark Roosevelt said he got the word...