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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bill Gates: Flip the Curve: Student Achievement vs. School Budgets

Bill Gates: Flip the Curve: Student Achievement vs. School Budgets

Yesterday I spoke to the nation's Governors at their annual meeting in Washington, D.C. They are grappling with more than state budget deficits; they're also confronting deep education deficits. I encouraged them to flip the curve on how much we spend vs. how well students do in school.

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Over the last four decades, the per-student cost of running our K-12 schools has more than doubled, while our student achievement has remained flat, and other countries have raced ahead.