Editing Gates Foundation (section)

===Poverty and education policy===
Critics say the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has overlooked the links between poverty and poor academic achievement and has unfairly demonized teachers for poor achievement by underprivileged students. They contend that the Gates Foundation should be embracing anti-poverty and living wage policies rather than pursuing untested and empirically unsupported education reforms.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/21/how-bill-gates-and-fellow-billionaires-can-actually-help-public-education/|author=Valerie Strauss|title=How Bill Gates and fellow billionaires can actually help public education|date=April 21, 2014|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=August 24, 2017|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125146/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/21/how-bill-gates-and-fellow-billionaires-can-actually-help-public-education/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Critics say that Gates-backed reforms such as increasing the use of technology in education may financially benefit Microsoft and the Gates family.<ref name="chronicle.com"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Mark |title=The Washington Post's 'Tense' Talk With Bill Gates on Common Core |url=https://www.edweek.org/education/the-washington-posts-tense-talk-with-bill-gates-on-common-core/2014/06 |work=Education Week |date=9 June 2014 }} citing: {{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1534666399}} |last1=Layton |first1=Lyndsey |title=How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html |work=The Washington Post |date=7 June 2014 }}</ref>