During a conference keynote speech Wednesday morning, Bill Gates recommitted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to its current work in supporting the use of high academic standards and helping ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose priorities include global health and U.S. education, has made initiatives focused on teacher quality a key dimension of its recent grantmaking strategy. The ...

In its inaugural year, the Pearland Independent School District Education Foundation awarded just over $10,000 in Innovative Teaching Grants to 13 Pearland ISD teachers and instructional staff. Thanks ...

Arts education is often an afterthought in schools, but Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks ...

Sponsored content by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers. Some see us as education’s odd couple—one, the president of a democratic teachers’ union; the other, a ...

The Cullen Foundation has announced their second funding cycle. The Foundations will support two areas: Education and Performing Arts. The Foundation is NOT funding arts education nor research at this ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spent more than $200 million on a teacher effectiveness initiative, and an independent assessment found that the program failed to help students. Now the Gates ...