Peering at the Future
By BOB HERBERT
NYT
Charlotte, N.C.
A whoop went up in the classroom and the teenagers became giddy when they realized that the man and woman being escorted to the front of the room were Bill and Melinda Gates.
“Ohmigod!” shrieked one girl, her eyes and mouth wide with astonishment.
“Are you the real Bill Gates?” asked another.
The Gateses were in the Algebra 1 class at West Charlotte High School (a venerable, mostly black institution that over the decades has reached academic highs and touched ignominious lows) to learn, not teach. They have been traveling the country trying to see for themselves what really works and what has gone haywire in public education in the United States.
(More here.)
NYT
Charlotte, N.C.
A whoop went up in the classroom and the teenagers became giddy when they realized that the man and woman being escorted to the front of the room were Bill and Melinda Gates.
“Ohmigod!” shrieked one girl, her eyes and mouth wide with astonishment.
“Are you the real Bill Gates?” asked another.
The Gateses were in the Algebra 1 class at West Charlotte High School (a venerable, mostly black institution that over the decades has reached academic highs and touched ignominious lows) to learn, not teach. They have been traveling the country trying to see for themselves what really works and what has gone haywire in public education in the United States.
(More here.)
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