Sentences with phrase «high tech education»

New England Tech was included in the program because Ackerman says the school offers high tech education, something that many Rhode Island companies are looking for their graduates to possess.

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A key driver of Atlanta's attractiveness to tech companies is its reputation for higher education, especially for churning out skilled engineers.

It's home to advanced manufacturing companies, green tech firms, while also supporting several high paying government and education jobs.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

Education tech startup and High Alpha portfolio company ClearScholar announced that it raised $ 1.25 million from Elevate Ventures and Simon family members.

It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth - gaps, reduces high - tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids» schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high - tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P - TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me.

The Santa Rosa - based high - tech tester maker distributed $ 704,000 to local nonprofits last year and $ 200,000 for STEM education.

Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share of workers with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share of «knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social science, health care and education.

Does Huntsman recognize the ways in which public policy — everything from education policy to funding for high - tech research — affects these deep questions?

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Read this NYTimes article to learn why high - achieving tech parents from Google and other Silicon Valley high - tech companies choose Waldorf education for their own children.

From high - tech to no - frills, quality early education programs come in a variety of shapes and sizes — and with various amenities.

«Frankly, I'm really focused on three things — the (education) gap elimination adjustment, growing a high - tech industry and helping small businesses.

This initiative has brought together community leaders in education, workforce development, and industry to develop a plan that will propel our region's high - tech economy into the future.

Meanwhile we are making dollars available to financially strapped School Districts to make our county's STEM education the best in the state as we prepare for our new high tech economy.»

«The STEM Incentive awards not only give this state's top high school students access to a first rate education, but it ensures that they and their talents remain in New York to help build our burgeoning high tech economy,» Governor Cuomo said.

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership (Saratoga Partnership), the county's designated economic development agency, and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a leading voice for the worldwide semiconductor industry, today announced the establishment of a strategic partnership to drive high - tech business attraction and growth in Saratoga County while establishing a hub for semiconductor outreach, advocacy and education in the Northeast.

MALTA — On Thursday, the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a leading voice for the worldwide semiconductor industry, announced the establishment of a strategic partnership to drive high - tech business attraction and growth in Saratoga County while creating a hub for semiconductor outreach, advocacy and education in the Northeast.

We both pledge credibly to invest in the high - tech economy and protect and improve education, health, support for children and pensioners, and public transport.

Governor Cuomo proposed Innovation Hot Spots: Ten higher education / private sector high - tech incubators will be selected through a competitive process that fosters innovation by offering inventors and entrepreneurs support to grow their businesses and to be part of a tax - free zone, where start - ups will not be subject to business, real property, and sales taxes.

«The College Corps helps place students in jobs that are enhancing their education as well as keeping them in the Mohawk Valley... we take pride in this area and what it has to offer as we continue to recruit new employees,» said Lisa Kimmel of Black River Systems, one of the many high tech employers in the program.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

«We recognize that broadband service has become as essential as electricity and water and sewer for economic development and that if we want to attract high - tech jobs, if we want to provide students opportunities for education and provide equal access to services to people across the county, having high - speed broadband is absolutely critical at this point.»

With one of the classrooms for Mohawk Valley Community College's newly instituted small Unoccupied Aerial Systems degree program as the backdrop this morning, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. updated the progress being made in his Vision 2020 initiative which intends to ready the region for growth in the areas of high - tech education and training; transportation and housing and access to opportunity.

The tool features 59 state indicators of state performance in education, the scientific workforce, research and development (R&D) investments and activities, and high - tech business.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

With a science and technology background, McGinty is passionate about the competitiveness of U.S. high - tech companies and she spent much of her fellowship year working to strengthen patent protections, manufacturing, and science education.

A lack of high - tech talent, these critics warn, so threatens the nation's continued competitiveness that the U.S. must drastically upgrade its K - 12 science and math education and import large numbers of technically trained foreigners by promptly raising the current limit on the number of skilled foreigners allowed to enter the country to work in private industry.

«We found that higher rates of poverty and lower levels of education helped explain breastfeeding gaps between black and white women, especially in determining whether mothers started breastfeeding in the first place,» said Sharon Landesman Ramey, a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and an author of the paper.

It outlines a grand vision of an open and effective research and innovation system that brings together education, research, and innovation to create a sustainable high - tech society.

Two U.S. higher education organizations have begun collecting data on what graduate students know about their career options and what type of workers high - tech companies are looking for.

«With an underfunded health care system and a population that would benefit more from a focus on lifestyle factors, such as smoking and abuse of alcohol and drugs, we should not enter into expensive high - tech endeavors,» says Tiina Tasmuth, a professor of medical education at the University of Tallinn.

Grant support: Chinese National Key Program for Basic Research 973, Chinese National High Tech Program 863 (2006AA02Z19A), National Natural Science Foundation of China (30570778 and 30670882), «Shu Guang» Program of Shanghai Municipal Commission for Education (03SG37), and Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.

Times Higher Education ranks Florida Tech in the Top 200 Universities in the World.

She credits her newfound success to her heritage and education and says, «Each Uma product is produced using high - tech processing technology by experts in ethnobotany and Ayurvedic training.

Received Master Degree in Yoga Education: High - Tech Yoga Institute of America — Dr. V.S. Rao / Vedula Satyananda Rao (Focus: Prenatal & Children).

One of several new higher education institutions in the region KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, is a progressive research university where seminars on wearable tech and grafting smart surfaces onto textiles are becoming commonplace.

High Tech High Graduate School of Education Established in September 2007 at San Diego's High Tech High village of schools, it offers a master's degree in education in two concentrations: school leadership and teacher leEducation Established in September 2007 at San Diego's High Tech High village of schools, it offers a master's degree in education in two concentrations: school leadership and teacher leeducation in two concentrations: school leadership and teacher leadership.

Scott is currently a 5th Grade Teacher, Author, Trainer, Global School Play Day Co-Founder, Skype Master Teacher Founding Member, 2015 MIE Expert, Featured in Microsoft's 2014 & 2015 Super Bowl #Empowering Campaign; 2014 California State Teacher of the Year Finalist; 2014 Orange County Teacher of the Year; 2014 OC CUE Outstanding Teacher; 2013 Irvine Unified School District Teacher of the Year; 2013 Project Tomorrow High - Tech Award Winner in STEM education for High Impact Teacher; Co-Host Bedley Bros EdChat Show (@bedleybros on Twitter), iTunes Podcast and Stitcher Radio Show bringing on leaders and innovators in education.

UnBoxed: A Journal of Adult Learning in Schools Published by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education; offers reflections on purpose, practice, and policy in eEducation; offers reflections on purpose, practice, and policy in educationeducation.

Hamby's intensive experience at High Tech transforms his vision of education.

'98 Associate Professor, Program Coordinator Higher Education, & Department of Educational Psychology & Leadership, Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

While it's impossible to know at present whether Georgia Tech's online - only instruction is as high - quality as its face - to - face instruction — and this is something that, given the extant literature at the undergraduate level, may still be a real concern — this study makes clear that one of the promises of online education (expansion of access to satisfy unmet demand) may well be realized if enough highly - regarded institutions enter the online education marketplace.

Education consultant Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Larry Rosenstock, founding principal of San Diego's High Tech High, featured in the Edutopia.org article «Kaleidoscopic Learning: An Overview of Integrated Studies,» recommend some favorite resources for teachers interested in learning more about integrated studies:

Education World: The premise of your book High - Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian is that computers don't belong in schools --

In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel's education minister writes that people who look to Israel's education system to understand why his country is such a high - tech powerhouse are looking in the wrong place.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

In some industries, such as high - tech, manufacturing, and medical devices, there's a high value placed on education that helps customers benefit faster from a company's products and services.Yammer, maker of enterprise social media software, is one of many tech companies that are now selling training courses to customers.