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Investments: a potentially valid criticism, it also applies to a lot of other charities, including the very high profile (in the UK) Comic Relief. Diversion: W
by moomin 13y ago
Investments: a potentially valid criticism, it also applies to a lot of other charities, including the very high profile (in the UK) Comic Relief.
Diversion: Well, ultimately you can't win, every significant investment diverts from other things, but his endgame is to eliminate these diseases. Then the diversion will stop. It's worth bearing in mind that malaria wasn't nearly as high profile before Bill started attacking it.
Education: An awful lot of improvements to education are criticised for undermining public education. IMHO, public education needs undermining. (If you have no idea why I'd say that, I'm guessing you a) haven't got a child in a failing state school and b) haven't seen Season 4 of The Wire)
Grantee Communication: Looks like they agreed with the criticism and addressed it.
- saraid216 13y ago> Education: An awful lot of improvements to education are criticised for undermining public education. IMHO, public education needs undermining. (If you have no idea why I'd say that, I'm guessing you a) haven't got a child in a failing state school and b) haven't seen Season 4 of The Wire) My issue isn't that they're undermining public education, but rather that they're actively making all education worse by doubling down on its worst aspects. The only thing Gates has done w.r.t. education that I'm okay with is backing Khan Academy and the notion of flip teaching. That said, I'm pleased that he's trying.
- dobbsbob 13y agoI wish he would do more free online course funding and less lobbying of trying to force the terribad microsoft ranking system into public ed.
- n09n 13y agoIt may not be a good system for long term repeated application, but for an organization that has a lot of incompetent members that need culling like US public education, it could help a lot.