S Ohanian: How Gates gets the word out into the education community

Susan Ohanian reveals:

Here's how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation get their word out into the education community: They fund book chapters by people at Stanford, Harvard (2), Rand, University of Texas, and University of Virginia--at $30,000 a pop (and sometimes more).

Stanford University
Date: June 2012
Purpose: to support development of a chapter about Quality Science Teaching instrument for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project
Amount: $30,000

Harvard University
Date: June 2012
Purpose: to support development of a chapter about the relationship of student to teacher survey responses for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project
Amount: $30,000

Harvard University
Date: June 2012
Purpose: to support development of a chapter about the relationship of classroom observations to student to survey responses for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project
Amount: $30,000

RAND Corporation
Date: June 2012
Purpose: to support development of a chapter about the grade level variation in observational measures of teacher effectiveness for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project
Amount: $30,000

University of Texas at Austin
Date: May 2012
Purpose: to support development of a chapter about the UTeach Observation Protocol for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project
Amount: $30,000

Those folk might all ask why a chapter from the University of Virginia is worth more money:

University of Virginia
Date: May 2012
Purpose: to support development of a chapter about classroom observation protocols for the edited volume of the Measures of Effective Teaching project
Amount: $49,864

from: http://www.susanohanian.org/core.php?id=505