Sentences with phrase «help close this skills gap»

With 10 days in the legislative session remaining after Tuesday, Senate Republicans are playing a long game with a series of workforce development proposals they say could help close a skills gap between employees and employers statewide.

The Apprentice, But for Real: How Some Companies Close the Skills Gap (Foreign Policy) Professor Emeritus Bob Schwartz discusses an employer culture problem and how employers need to adopt programs that help close the skills gap.

Federal Reserve Chair advocates that banks can help close the skills gap for low - and moderate - income Americans.

The poor representation of women in IT does nothing to help close this skills gap.

Big Data and competency - based education unite in the RightSkill (SM) program — an exciting new initiative that connects learning and real - world employer demand to help close the skills gap

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They include IBM, which is helping urban high schools close the STEM skills gap, and 23andMe, which is empowering consumers to learn about their genetic risks — and the lifestyle choices they can make, in some cases, to lower them.

«Promoting Internet access nationwide and increasing STEM education will ensure Canada's workforce has the skill set needed for a 21st Century economy and help Canada close the competitiveness gap that exists with other G20 nations.»

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg and his running mate State Representative Christina Hale are unveiling a job creation plan they say will help close the state's skills gap, lead to higher paying jobs and improve Indiana's image.

The Clinical & Continuing Education Program (CCEP) is trying to close that gap by developing education and training programs that help clinicians build skills to improve their genetic risk assessment practice.

You may need help closing the gap while you learn new skills or fill the holes while you're out of your regular routine.

«By working closely with UK universities to raise awareness of data analytics skills and giving hands on training, we are helping to close the skills gap that exists between today's graduates and the workplace — but we see this is just the beginning.»

As part of Samsung's commitment to help close the digital skills gap in the UK, Samsung wanted to encourage the development of digital skills from an early age by enabling access to vital technology for some of the most disadvantaged learners in the UK.

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

Since an individual's data footprint can throw sharp focus on the areas that he / she is interested in or needs skills upgrading, a personalized eLearning plan helps organizations close the skills gap with ease and also demonstrates to the employees that they are valuable enough to invest in.

Working on just a few problems daily (or more, if your child enjoys math) can help students of all ages close the gaps in their math skills, preserve what they learned during the previous school year, and prepare for the next.

The Independent has reported that «digitally savvy» businesses are being encouraged to work with school teachers in order to help close a persistent skills gap in STEM subjects.

It will help close the yawning skills gaps reported by frustrated businesses across the UK, who face huge difficulty filling vacancies at every level.»

By engaging local students with computer science, art and design, FXP Festival aims to both drive social mobility in the region and help close the technology skills gap.

What can be done to help close gaps so that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, language skills, and immigration status, leave high school with the tools necessary to be successful adults?

This suggests that in order to close achievement gaps, schools need to work on helping students gain these skills and mindsets and that simply focusing on improving instruction and revising curriculum alone will not close the gap.

From January to April, when delivering professional development to help close achievement gaps, in recent years we have focused on strategies such as studying and test taking skills, fluency, vocabulary development, writing and rewriting, and even for some students meta - cognitive strategies to help them understand their own learning process.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: «The pupil premium has been one of the most significant changes in our education system for a long time and is already closing the attainment gap by helping up to two million disadvantaged children get the support, education and skills they need to get on in life - whether it's through literacy classes, catch - up lessons or one - to - one tuition.»

«This plan will help us close the achievement gap, and enable us to fulfill our vision to empower and equip every child with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to pursue a successful future.»

Last June, Oak Hill faculty, including several GCAE members who are building leaders at the school, participated in a two - day C.A.R.E. (Strategies for Closing Achievement Gaps) training, which provides specialized instruction to enhance the skills of teachers to help minority and low - income students.

Compass Learning products help pinpoint and close skill and concept gaps and move students forward academically with explicit instruction, supported practice, independent practice and ongoing formative assessment.

The school is included in NEA's Priority School Campaign, which is working with school officials and GCAE to provide staff training, such as C.A.R.E. (Strategies for Closing Achievement Gaps), which provides specialized training to enhance the skills of teachers to help minority and low - income students.

First, I will say that as a former person in charge of teacher preparation in the state of New York that the portions of this report that talk about the importance of alignment, of the higher education system and the P12 system, and really understanding the ways in which we're providing opportunities for teacher candidates to have longer residencies and we're thinking about ways in which teacher candidates are participating in coursework and practice, experiences that allow them to really apply what they're learning in ways that they're getting more at bats and they're becoming more confident and they're entering the system with a set of skills that are gonna help close those gaps and help those secondary students be successful is important.

Afterschool and summer programs across the country are helping to close the gap between the skills and competencies that students possess and the needs of employers.

Washington, D.C. — Adding an apprenticeship approach to K - 12 and higher education can help close the massive skills gap in the U.S., according to a panel of CEOs, two U.S. senators and a Trump administration official, in a discussion sponsored by the Business Roundtable here today.

The problems include how to close literacy gaps between Achievement First students, who are mostly poor minorities, and their statewide peers; and how to help kids build «habits of success,» also known as «character development» or «non-cognitive» skills.

To help close opportunity gaps, RISE high school juniors participate in SAT prep programs offered at their high schools, building SAT fluency, preparedness, confidence, and skills.

Research demonstrates that additional direct instruction provided appropriately, beginning in kindergarten through third grade, can help all but the most severely impaired students catch up to grade - level literacy skills and close the gap for most poor readers.

Now that the federal government is fully operational again, it is imperative that Congress make the strategic investments in education to help close achievement gaps and equip all students with the knowledge and skills they need to assure our country's economic competitiveness and global leadership for years to come.»

Grant recipients use funds to help close the gap between student and staff member ratios, reduce the number of disciplinary referrals in schools, and support other project - specific goals, including: strategies to improve attendance and achievement, counselor and teacher professional development, social skills development, and initiatives that foster community - based organization involvement to provide mental health services.

«The goal of Reading WonderWorks is to close the achievement gap among students, help struggling students develop foundational reading and writing skills in a self - paced and flexible environment starting as early as kindergarten, and accelerate them so that they can read on grade level and graduate with the confidence they need to succeed in college and beyond.»

He is also the co-founder of IOI Investor Services, LLC, a company that helps institutional and individual investors close the gap between their investment responsibility and their skill set.

The Slayer is also equipped with a brand new tool, the Demon Hand, which can latch onto Oni like a grappling hook, allowing gaps to close in lightning fast ways and help set up some epic combo and weapon skill attacks.

«Our focus on skills that employers value helps close the gap between law school and real - world practice, and facilitates the transition from law student to successful and productive law practice.»

In her presentation, «Law Students + Technology = Closing the Justice Gap,» Kaufman discussed ways in which law students are moving beyond traditional curriculum paradigms, learning «lawyering skills of the future,» and how those skills can help the next generation of lawyers and legal organizations provide access to justice for underserved groups and individuals.

How Honeywell hopes to train tomorrow's factory workers with an AR / VR simulator based on Microsoft HoloLens (TechRepublic) A new AR / VR simulator from Honeywell uses Microsoft HoloLens to help train industrial employees and could even aid companies in closing the skills gap.