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Part Two: The Ballad of Bill Gates

Behind the Bastards

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Gates Foundation

In two thousand eight gates embarked on another programm to apply his market logic to education. He put more than a billion dollars into reforming low income an minority schools. The basic idea was that they develop a set of metrics to evaluate teachers, with the goal of retaining good ones and reshaping or removing bad ones. Over the course of seven years, there was no evidence that this programme helped schools hire better teachers. A ran study showed no evidence of impact on student outcomes from a right up in business insider.

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