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Bill Gates' favorite teacher

Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small think tank, bgC3, e-mailed him about the nonprofit khanacademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. Gates replied within minutes. "This guy is ...

Bill Gates pushes for R&D on renewable energy

Bill Gates is pushing for research into and investment in multiple energy solutions, not just one or two. "Without R&D investments, we are not going to be able to address climate problems in time," he told The New York Times. "We need solutions that are economic, reliable in almost all conditions and that work at scale." My colleague Amy Rolph wrote at more length about Gates' recent remarks ...

Warren Buffett, Bill Gates to Visit Beijing This Month, Observer Reports

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will visit Beijing on Sept. 29, the Economic Observer reported, citing Soho China Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Zhang Xin.

Bill Gates: Teachers unions should follow Hillsborough's lead

SEATTLE ? Bill Gates knows something about the power of good teaching. He used to be an underachiever. "I got very poor grades up until eighth grade, because I just didn't think it was cool," he told the St. Petersburg Times on Saturday in an exclusive interview. But the Microsoft founder said he turned his performance around and started earning top grades, thanks to middle school teachers who ...

Is the new iPod Nano the smartwatch that Bill Gates envisioned?

Bill Gates had a vision for a smartwatch nearly a decade ago. Will it be Apple, with the new iPod Nano and maybe a case with a strap, that brings the idea to life?

Department of Awful Statistics: Small Schools Edition

It seems even Bill Gates can be taken in by poor understanding of statistics. Specifically,? Bill Gates - North Carolina - Education - Student - United States