Bill Gates Helps Nation's Poorest

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Since 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent about $4 billion helping to improve high schools and promote college access. Gates wants to promote better teaching in the neediest schools and provide financial incentives to keep the best teachers from leaving after only four or five years.

He also wants teachers to be more accountable for how much a student progresses in a year and to provide financial incentives for those teachers who want to improve. Ineffective teachers should not be retained.The main emphasis should be children first but the reformers are finding a resistance to change among local unions, controlled by long-serving teachers.