Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg started their own schools—but fixing education is harder than it looks

Mark Zuckerberg wearing graduation regalia. (Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

• The list of billionaire celebrities and founders pouring fortunes into classrooms is growing: Kanye West, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have all sought to shake up schools. Some have even built their own. But it turns out, fixing a deeply flawed system is harder than it looks.

If you can name a billionaire, odds are, they’ve given some of their philanthropic stash to the world of education.