“Value added” gauges based on growth in student test scores and students’ perceptions of their teachers both hold promise as components of a system for identifying and promoting teacher effectiveness, ...

Launched in 1999 with a $1 billion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Gates Millennium Scholars program has over the years helped cut college costs for more than 13,000 academically ...

Student standardized test scores can accurately identify effective teachers, especially when combined with classroom observations and pupil surveys, according to a major national study released ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is throwing its weight behind the trend to offer “cash for grades” to keep low-income students in college, despite protests from some quarters that such incentive ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has described a program to boost vaccination of kids around the world as his best investment. But a new analysis — by another Gates-funded organization — questions the ...

Helping people move out of poverty will require giving them a greater sense of power and belonging in society at large, according to a Gates Foundation study two years in the making. The U.S.