From its inception, the Gates Foundation has funded efforts to help ensure all students have access to a great education—whether through scholarships in the earliest days to more systemic work today, like investments to help recruit, compensate, support
and develop highly effective teachers.

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As a nation, we have an obligation to not just adopt better standards, but give children and families a way to meet them. That's why in addition to supporting standards, the foundation is investing in helping teachers become more effective, and in resources, tools and supports that will help students master the new common core standards. We want to support states and districts that are now doing the hard work of implementation.

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It's time to solve the higher education affordability puzzle and explore how we increase the number of graduates while decreasing costs.

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Much of Daniel Greenstein's work at the University of California focused on how to ensure that students received the individualized support they needed to succeed in entry-level courses, so that they could go on to earn a degree.

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Our education system is failing the most vulnerable in society—children of color who grow up poor. The imbalance and inequities in public education that have existed for too long are still at work in communities of color.

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