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Anchor Lead: If you had a billion dollars, would you invest your fortune in public schools? That's what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is doing. Dozens of philanthropies connected to big business ranging form Wal-Mart to Dell Computers are also investing in elementary, middle, and high schools. This week, The Learning Curve is looking at how these dollars are influencing public education in Washington State. In part one of our three-part series Lessons Learned, KPLU's Jennifer Wing talks with Richard Colvin from Columbia University's Hechinger Institute.

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