A letter to our daughter

Re:A letter to our daughter by agorabinary on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:05PM (#10659224)

Will this ~$45 billion go to efficient use? Based on his track record of $100 million to newark and how effective that was, I am skeptical.

Good intentions in philanthropy are a dime a dozen, actual results are less common.

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Re:A letter to our daughter by peter303 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:57PM (#10660113)

Improving schools is HARD for techies and non-techies alike. Education is one of the major iniatives of the Gates Foundation and Mrs Jobs main charity.

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Re:A letter to our daughter by ams6110 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @11:27PM (#10660954)

Dumping money in to a proven failed approach was not a great idea. He should have founded a separate school system instead.

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Re:A letter to our daughter by spicyj on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:42PM (#10659453)

Has it really been so big a failure as the press has led us to believe?

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102461245925231

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Re:A letter to our daughter by sliverstorm on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:12PM (#10659921)

If the Newark experiment winds up being a catastrophe, we do still walk away with a postmortem teaching us interesting things about the problems we face, and debunking the notion that all schools need is more money.

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Re:A letter to our daughter by likerofnews on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:04PM (#10659889)

Did you actually read the results of the $100 million going to Newark instead of blindly believing the media? Probably not... #uninformed.

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