Giving Compass' Take:

· The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg will be teaming up to help provide new teaching methods for children who have trouble learning.

· How will this new initiative help disadvantaged students with trouble learning?

· Learn more about the benefits derived from personalized learning.

Tech moguls Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg said recently that they will team up to help develop new methods for kids with trouble learning — an effort that will include dabbling into child brain science.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative intend to explore a number of potential pilot projects.

They’ll focus on math, writing and brain functions — key areas of classroom learning that they note are crucial for academic success.

The new endeavor marks the latest effort by deep-pocketed philanthropists who have tried with little success and much controversy to change entire school systems.

In some ways, it advances the reform agendas of the philanthropists, including helping low-performing students catch up to their potentially more prosperous peers and using classroom technology for digital or personalized learning.

Read the full article about Gates and Zuckerberg's new education initiative by Sally Ho at AP News.