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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

How Foundations Can Stimulate Change

To the Editor:

William A. Schambra's February 9 commentary "7 (Bad) Habits of (In)effective Foundations" could be reduced to a single maxim: It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

Virtually all contemporary education philanthropy, and most education research, consists of either identifying best practices or training some finite number...

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