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Gates Foundation playing pivotal role in changes for education system

Across the country, public education is in the midst of a quiet revolution. States are embracing voluntary national standards for English and math, while schools are paying teachers based on student performance.

It’s an agenda propelled in part by a flood of money from a billionaire prep-school graduate best known for his software empire: Bill Gates.

In the past 2 1/2 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx has pledged more than $650 million to schools, public agencies and other groups that buy into its main education priorities.

By Nick Anderson

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071103628.html?hpid=topnews

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