Newsweek and The Daily Beast Back to School for the Billionaires You call the mixed results of foundational efforts to jump-start school reform "dispiriting." Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, the need to understand mixed results animates one of our most ambitious initiatives: turning reams of educational data into information that can be acted on. Our goal is to give teachers, principals, and parents real-time insight into which methods work and which don't. The effort won't be complete until every teacher, principal, and parent in every community in the U.S. has insight into what works for every child. We didn't sign up for an easy A and never expected to buy success. We've seen a lot of success, and some failure. But we're still here, sleeves rolled up, working for change. Janet Mountain Executive Director Michael & Susan Dell Foundation