Strategy Retooled at Gates

Graduation Push Broadened From High School to College

Seattle

In rolling out plans last week to revamp its high school strategy and launch a major new effort on the postsecondary front, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is undertaking a more sweeping approach to grantmaking that appears aimed at reshaping some core elements of the U.S. education system.

The philanthropy’s agenda on secondary schools

At the postsecondary level, the foundation intends to help create an array of supports and incentives—and even new institutions—with the goal of ensuring that students don’t simply reach...