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Trusting Entrepreneurs to Improve Education: A Cautionary Tale

“Beware of all educational enterprises that require billionaire entrepreneurs.” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, or almost wrote that. His actual words were, “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” I just updated it a bit. Bill Gates has put many hundreds of millions of dollars into education improvement schemes, with minimal success. Now he’s […]

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