Bill Gates should start his own elite university, says one educational policy thinker
In this week’s issue of The Chronicle, Kevin Carey, director of an educational think-tank in Washington, D.C. is publicly running an idea past the world’s richest man. “Two words,” he writes. “Gates University.”
Although the idea is a 19th-century one (Stanford, Duke, Rice), Carey facetiously prods William Gates III, the holder of approximately $40 billion in net worth, to build a university unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Plus, with the billionaire’s recent work trying to improve high school education in the U.S., which is proving to be difficult, Carey says higher education is an elite market with far less competition.
So, what is his vision for Gates University?
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