Gates changes Galvanic bracelet grant description
Yesterday, I wrote about $1.1 million in grants that Bill Gates’s foundation made to develop bracelets that could measure how engaged students were in class. Today, the foundation said that one of the descriptions of the grants that I included in my post was actually wrong on its Web site and that it is fixing it.
A foundation spokesman said that the purpose of the $498,055 grant to Clemson University — which was awarded in November — is not related to teacher evaluation and that the Web site shouldn’t have said it was. Chris Williams, spokesman for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in an e-mail that the original grant description was being fixed. He said mistakes are made “from time to time” but did not explain how this one occurred.
The original description of the grant said:
Purpose: to work with members of the Measuring Effective