Sentences with phrase «about their education at»

Bertolini, who joined Aetna in 2003 as head of specialty products and rose to CEO in 2010, joked at a 2010 awards ceremony at Wayne State about his education at the Detroit school, «probably the single most important factor» in his success as an executive.

There is very little conversation discussion about education at the Board of Education meetings.»

She was profiled in the New York Times Magazine in September, testified before Congress in July about educational opportunity for African - Americans, headlined a talk about education at the Sun Valley conference, also in July, and was named to the «hall of fame» of the National Alliance for Charter Schools in June.

«One of the best ways for change is to have people who are experts and passionate about education at all levels to run for office because you get to sit at the table, influence, and really make a difference,» Cain says.

We want to have students feeling good about their education at your institution and these very first few classes are the best place to start.

Cami Anderson, who runs the largest school district in New Jersey, came to Washington on Thursday to give a quiet talk about education at a think tank.

Mulgrew also blasted the governor for being behind «corporate bonus - style merit pay,» claimed that his «education agenda isn't about education at all — it is political payback» (because the unions did not support his reelection bid) and that «it is poverty and inequality and lack of funding, not «failing schools» or «bad teachers,» that are at the root of our education system's struggles.»

The National Teaching and Learning Forum: A nicely organized discussion group full of interesting opinions, ideas, and comments about education at all levels.

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In a fascinating article about education in the Middle East, Amanda Ripley writes at the Atlantic:

Then came infrastructure, at about 13 %, followed closely by education.

At a time when about one in five young Canadians are underemployed or working in precarious part - time jobs, it's easy to think that the more education you have, the better.

She writes extensively about education, business, self - improvement, and careers and has adjuncted at UCLA and National University.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

At the beginning of Jim Koch's new book about his adventures building the Boston Beer Company, our hero bails on a Harvard MBA to spend three years leading grueling, off - the - grid excursions for the famous outdoor education program.

At the moment about 90 % of its business is in the education sector, which means it has a lot of room to grow elsewhere.

«My role here is to take a lot of those learnings that I had at Airbnb where it was about transforming an archaic system that really needed a revamp — for there it was travel and here it's education,» said Modi, now AltSchool's vice president of operations and services.

«While we have this image that America is this land of great opportunity, the truth is, the places we're talking about [at the top of the ranking] have high social mobility — meaning if you're born to a relatively poor family, it's not an obstacle, you'll be able to get an education and get ahead.

That thought, on display during Wednesday's presidential debates, is also at the heart of a battle raging between Democrats and Republicans, whose views about governement involvment in everything from health care and education to business are diametrically opposed.

The first explanation I looked at was people's level of education and their knowledge about science.

Williams said he has attempted to collect information about the highest - paid public employees in the past but has struggled to obtain the salaries of coaches at public universities as well as other higher - education administrators.

The cost of running the program is about $ 5,500 per student, according to Tina Kapral, director of education programs for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, an educational and reseach center at Syracuse.

This determines, at an individual level, the returns to education - and it's something economists don't know a great deal about.

Warren Buffett donated about $ 2.2 billion of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and U.S. education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.

An article on Friday about the philanthropic work of Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steven P. Jobs, misspelled the given name of the overseer of education grants and investments at Emerson Collective, Ms. Powell Jobs's charitable organization.

I'll admit that complaining about the education taxes aimed at the wealthy — such as the plan to institute an excise tax on endowment fund managers paid in excess of $ 1 million a year — is unsympathetic.

That was the message members of the school community offered at a town hall held to solicit comments about distribution plans for donations to the Broward Education Foundation's Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund.

Techcircle caught up with the Infosys co-founder on the sidelines of the #Future Summit, a global digital conclave organised by the Kerala government at Kochi, where he opened up about the challenges India faces as a country, the mentorship gap in the startup ecosystem, the significance of education and country - specific innovations.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

Coalition Executive Director of the STEM Education Coalition James Brown delivered a speech at the Second Arkansas STEM Summit about STEM learning pathways in line with the summit's theme of «Spotlighting STEM.»

I'm very much looking forward to participating in this forum at the Urban Institute on Monday, where I'll be on a panel talking about the role of higher education in both the economy and the lives of the people in the economy.

In fact, that work permit is so generous that students and parents at the Chinese Education Expo who find out about it at first seem incredulous.

New York City Coming in at 9th in this year's ITM report, New York City's technology ecosystem, sometimes called «Silicon Alley,» is home to just about every startup niche imaginable, with notable sectors including education tech, health tech and financial tech playing a big role.

«We've been at this for 40 years and we care deeply about education,» Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said at the event.

Their decisions matter more during uncertain economic times than just about any other, says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at Dartmouth's Tuck Executive Education school.

The Department of Education has information about how to request ITT transcripts here at number 6.

About the Juno Beach Centre The Juno Beach Centre is a museum and education centre which opened at Courseulles - sur - Mer, France on June 6, 2003.

The Minister of Finance announced yesterday that, while the Canada Health Transfer and Equalization will be tied to nominal economic growth (projected to be about 4 % annually), the Canada Social Transfer for post-secondary education and other provincial services will grow at only 3 % annually.

As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

A couple weeks in the parish looking around at things, assessing the state of the Sunday school or catechetical education or the decrepit office equipment, with your head simply bubbling with all the latest liturgical gizmos plus a really whiz - bang theory about the authorship of John, and you will wonder how this creaky old congregation ever managed to survive without you.

At least in the short term, there are concerns about adequate housing, health care, education, sanitation, food, and supervision as detention facilities attempt to cope with the influx.

I have often said, education is at least as much about realizing what we don't know, as it is about learning about what we do know.

I always hate it when Ivy League educated ministers drop their fancy educations at the start of articles, forgetting everything Jesus said about humility...

At the same time, the education is about 10 - 15 times more expensive now as it was when I started my first degree.

Ask any teacher what percentage of parents take an active role in their child's education, take responsibility for their child's work and behavior, attend parent / teacher conferences and open house, or are simply able to be contacted at all about their child.

Although she had a solid prayer life, by the time she had completed her formal education at the age of 12, there was nothing about her that would make her stand out in a crowd.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

At Hennepin County, for example, seminary students in our clinical pastoral education program have learned a good deal about suicidal people and crisis intervention by participating in our Suicide Prevention Service under the supervision of that staff clergyman.

I began working at the Christian Women's Job Corp (a non-profit that provides education and mentoring for low income women) about 2 years ago, and have heard stories come out of this city that you wouldn't believe.