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Imagine a $500,000 Gates Foundation grant to Harvard
- 08-31-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Why would the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s richest foundation, hand over a $500,000 grant to Harvard, the world’s wealthiest university? It turns out that Harvard, in July, was given a $500,000 grant fromGates, which has its financial tentacles deep in the education world and beyond, to do the following, according to the foundation’s Web site: “to re-imagine the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the future” Yes, Harvard got that much money to “re-imagine.” What will school officials do with the cash? Here’s what Kathleen McCartney, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, sent me in an e-mail to that question: “We are conducting a strategic planning process with an eye towards the future for schools of education generally, and the Harvard Graduate School specifically. We’ve just gotten started, so no news to report as yet.” (more...)
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