The Impatient Optimists

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Texting 4 Safe Vaccines in India

April 23, 2012 / Amie Newman

Indian scientists are just weeks away from testing a new technology to combat the possibility of vaccines going bad in the box: using SMS (texting) to alert health officials when the temperature inside a box of vaccines rises too high.

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Making Education Technology Make Sense

March 14, 2012 / Elizabeth Corcoran

Internet and social media are surging toward the classroom in a big way. How does anyone know what will work?

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We Need More "STEM" Rock Stars

March 13, 2012 / Bernard Harris

We may have wont he space race, but we're losing the STEM challenge.

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Xtreme Innovation

February 22, 2012 / Andrew Calkins

Imagine a school reform gauge—a meter that indicates the nature of any given reform project’s theory of change.

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The New Pew Data on E-Readers Show How Digital Divides Persist

January 23, 2012 / Deborah Jacobs

The Pew Research Center has just issued a report indicating that “tablet and e-book reader ownership nearly doubled over the holiday gift-giving period” across the United States.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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