Sentences with phrase «bill gates recently»

«The remarkable thing about great teachers today,» Bill Gates recently said, «is that in most cases nobody taught them how to be great.

Bill Gates recently sat down for a long interview with Rolling Stone magazine to discuss consumer technology, wealth and the huge amounts of anti-poverty work currently being undertaken by The Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates recently pronounced, «In terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient.

As Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently noted, «The process of innovation tends to take longer than many people expect, but it also tends to be more revolutionary than they imagine.»

Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently suggested that robots primed to replace humans in the workplace should be taxed.

Not exact matches

After all, Bill Gates had only recently bought his own plane, and Microsoft staff couldn't even fly first class, according to The Times.

Bill Gates knows a thing or two about some of engineering's most complex concepts, but the Microsoft co-founder recently learned an important lesson from an elementary school teacher.

Think of the multibillion - dollar commitments made by Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, and, more recently, Alphabet's Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Until relatively recently in human history, malaria was found on every continent except Antarctica, according to Dr. David Brandling - Bennett, an epidemiologist and the former director of the malaria strategy program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Sue Desmond - Hellmann, head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently told The Washington Post about why vulnerability is so key in leading others.

For example, Bill and Melinda Gates — and a consortium of other well - known investors — recently launched the $ 2 billion green energy Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, whose goal is to invest in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least half a gigaton.

Big profits from managing short lead times helped Amancio Ortega — Spanish business magnate, founder and chairman of the Inditex fashion group — recently pass Bill Gates's fortune for the second time.

It isn't just Bill Gates who has been critical of cryptocurrencies recently.

Bill Gates» opinion on cryptocurrencies has been quite positive in the past, however, it appears to have changed recently.

Notably, Bill and Melinda Gates have made a commitment to give most of their fortune away, and recently, Bezos has expressed a deeper interest in philanthropy.

02 Feb 2018 — Clean meat innovators Memphis Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested in the food tech startup which lab - grows meat directly from animal cells.

I was recently hired as a consultant by the NGO Res Publica to help them complete a research project for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the topic of «e-advocacy in the global south».

The company was recently endorsed by Bill Gates, who said that it offers a potential solution to the increasing and ultimately unsustainable demand for food.

The group included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, whose estimated personal wealth is greater than $ 46.5 billion, and Niklas Zennström, the upstart CEO of the Internet - based phone service Skype Technologies, who recently sold his three - year - old company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion.

BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

Chief Executive Jo Revill writes about her visit to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle recently for a meeting which brought together different groups to talk under the theme of «taking risks».

Recently, I've seen posts from everyone from Dr. Mercola to Dr. Oz touting the benefits of proper bathroom posture, and even Bill Gates held a contest to redesign the modern toilet.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today an initial set of grants totaling $ 69 million as part of its recently unveiled initiative to double college - completion rates for low - income students.

Student feedback, test - score growth calculations, and observations of practice appear to pick up different but complementary information that, combined, can provide a balanced and accurate picture of teacher performance, according to research recently released from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

L.A.'s activists are further bolstered by a statewide charter lobby that's picked up considerable clout in recent years, capitalized by Broad, Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and most recently Bill Gates.

More recently, we worked with fellow members of the Central Falls District Charter Compact to secure a $ 10 million program - related investment (PRI) loan from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support facilities development in partnership with the nonprofit charter - school facilities developer Civic Builders.

Gates Targets Schools: Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates plan to broaden their commitment to K - 12 education, after having recently combined their two philanthropies into the nation's wealthiest foundation.

Seattle school district officials say they are working to resolve concerns raised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which recently halted the payment of grant money to the 45,000 - student system.

He recently partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates...

It bears noting that there is promising research on emerging personalized learning models, including, but not limited to, a RAND study published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last year and LEAP Innovations» recently released personalized learning framework and corresponding survey instruments to analyze and refine personalized learning practices across schools over time.

There are good reasons that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently gave MNCS more money to replicate itself.

He recently partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the «Measures of Effective Teaching» (or MET) project, which was intended to develop metrics capable of determining which teachers are faring better than others, and to determine what factors help determine success.

More recently she served as senior economic advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

More recently she served as Senior Economic Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

More recently, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated its considerable energies to persuading the public and policy makers that the nation's public schools are failing.

Paul Hill and Tom Loveless, both senior scholars at the Brookings Institution, recently acquired a million - dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assemble a panel of experts on school choice, with the goal of writing the definitive statement on what we know and what requires additional study.

According to a survey recently published by Scholastic Corporation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 73 percent of teachers with direct experience implementing the Common Core State Standards are enthusiastic about using them.

Bill Gates made these pronouncements recently in an interview: 1) «Artificial Intelligence is on a faster learning curve than human intelligence.»

Recently, education historian Diane Ravitch called for congressional investigation of Bill Gates and his out - sized and undemocratic role in the takeover of public education.

The school's startup was funded through a $ 312,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Meyer Memorial Trust; Fisher estimated the Oregon Small Schools Initiative, which administers those grants, has passed along another $ 150,000 or so — most recently, a $ 60,000 extension grant announced earlier this month — to pay for the same kinds of things the charter school grants would fund, though also some staffing time.

I recently ran across Bill Gates's blog.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

This last point, which according to the judge «shock [ed] the conscience,» came almost entirely thanks to the testimony of Thomas Kane (see prior posts about his Bill and Melinda Gates funded research here and here) and the testimony of Raj Chetty, Kane's colleague at Harvard who has also been the source of many prior posts (see here and here), but whose research at the source of his testimony has also been recently (and seriously) scrutinized given how bias in his study actually made false this key assertion.

With a research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DreamBox Learning recently developed and tested an exciting and innovative prototype environment for teacher professional development (PD).

Ricky Thacker recently drew the attention of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who visited his mathematics classroom at Betsy Layne High School in Floyd County.

LISC's CEO Michael Rubinger gives bond markets a fat «F» for this behavior — but his outfit recently got together with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to generate some change.

Deasy was recently the deputy director of the education division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prominent foundations such as Lumina, Kellogg and Ford have begun focusing on community colleges, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced it would spend up to half a billion dollars over the next four years on a college completion initiative.

The district was also recently awarded a $ 100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to further promote district - charter collaboration.

As described above, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently provided a significant infusion of financial as well as programmatic support to seven Compact cities — Boston, Denver, Hartford, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and Spring Branch — to expand and deepen their collaborative efforts.»