Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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Their wordsYou can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal-in a feedback loop similar to the one Rosen describes. This may seem pretty basic, but it is amazing to me how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.
↗2013 Annual Letter: Measuring Progressgatesfoundation.org 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsGiven how tight budgets are around the world, governments are rightfully demanding effectiveness in the programs they pay for. To address these demands, we need better measurement tools to determine which approaches work and which do not.
↗2013 Annual Letter: Measuring Progressgatesfoundation.org 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsI think a lot of efforts fail because they don't focus on the right measure or they don't invest enough in doing it accurately.
↗2013 Annual Letter: Measuring Progressgatesfoundation.org 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsI think the most critical change we can make in U.S. K-12 education is to create teacher feedback systems like the one in Eagle County that are properly funded, high quality, and trusted by teachers.
↗2013 Annual Letter: Measuring Progressgatesfoundation.org 4th of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsSociety underinvests in innovation in general but particularly in two important areas. One area is innovations that would mostly benefit poor people—there is too little investment here because the poor can’t generate a market demand.
↗2010 Annual Lettergatesfoundation.org 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsAlthough innovation is unpredictable, there is a lot that governments, private companies, and foundations can do to accelerate it. Rich governments need to spend more on research and development, for instance, and we need better measurement systems in health and education to determine what works.
↗2010 Annual Lettergatesfoundation.org 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsInnovation proceeds more rapidly when different parties can build on each other’s work and avoid going down the same dead end that others have gone down.
↗2010 Annual Lettergatesfoundation.org 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Our reading
Online education should aim for at least one great course per subject rather than many mediocre ones
Their wordsWe should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses.
↗2010 Annual Lettergatesfoundation.org 4th of 4 in this piece
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