Today in “Bill Gates’s Giving Opens Windows Of Moral Flattery,” Daniel Henninger calls upon philanthropists to design a grant-giving model that “subverts the …same hat-in hand status quo…[with its] old siren song of moral flattery.”

Henninger singles out K-12 inner-city education as the most obdurate problem facing philanthropies in the nation, and he correctly laments the success of the public-school unions and bureaucracies in blocking the foundation concepts and projects that could solve the problem.

Public higher education unions and bureaucracies, whose modus operandi is precisely that of their K-12 counterparts, also play a key role in thwarting the urgently needed reform on U.S. campuses, with their uniquely formative influence on all our other institutions, including K-12 education.

The country badly needs Mr. Gates and his fellow philanthropists to address this intractable state of affairs and, yes, to lead the way in changing the flawed philanthropic higher education paradigm that now largely holds sway.