The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed grants of $34.7m over three years to help set up five teacher preparation transformation centres around America, aiming to bring people together from universities, teacher-preparation providers and K-12 school systems to share data, knowledge and best practices. In the US, there are currently more than 100 such centres, which have been established in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed grants of $34.7m over three years to help set up five teacher preparation transformation centres around America, aiming to bring people together from universities, teacher-preparation providers and K-12 school systems to share data, knowledge and best practices. These sites will work on the development, piloting and scaling of those teacher-preparation practices that prove effective in helping new teachers improve student outcomes in K-12.