Sentences with phrase «last education event»

At Apple's last education event back in 2012, the company showed off iBooks 2 and a new iBooks Author app focused on textbook creation.

Many Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) have been clamouring for an iPad version of iBooks Author and perhaps we can take it as a compliment to us that it's taken 6 years (since Apple's last education event) for them to bring book creation to the iPad.

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«Education is job one,» said GameStop CEO Paul Raines at last week's event, which primarily served as the training grounds for the retailer's 5,000 managers.

More interestingly, I just posted a video from the last Bellingham Angel education event where Dan Rosen, Chair of the Alliance of Angels in Seattle, suggests that a reason that lawyers often recommend convertible notes is because of the fees.

Last month, the company hosted another full day, live - streamed event during the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., which mixed product placement and cultural education as a way to engage Chinese consumers.

Still, event with a raise the agreement in place — believed to be one of the last and most contentious of the policy matters in the budget — there are remaining matters that must be dealt with, including a push to bolster charter schools and funding for education.

«I have a high regard for Michael, I think he was an extremely good education secretary but I'm afraid the events of last week made it very difficult, I'm afraid, to support him and they appear to have been compounded, I'm afraid, by the text.»

The children attended the two - day Countryside Live schools event, which is organised by the Countryside Foundation for Education (CFE) and supported by BASC, at Lee Valley Park, Waltham Abbey in Essex last week.

Tristram Hunt, the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, was last night brave enough to sit down for an hour of conversation with him at a Progress #InConvo14 event.

Several education leaders, including Cash and Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore, used a news event last month to promote community schools as a platform to call on the mayor to help pay for the programs.

Last year, the event raised # 700,000 (about $ 940,000), which supported the BFC's Education Foundation for scholarships as well as other initiatives.

The first, lasting 30 minutes and moderated by Ball and featuring Bishil, Macdissi, and Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American - Islamic Relations (CAIR) brings up a lot of thoughtful points about racial slurs and the role of minorities in the media, but that's a mere warm - up for the main event, an impassioned discussion with Ball, Erian, and Rajdeep Singh Jolly, Legal Director of Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF).

Ask the next hundred teachers you see, for instance, how many of them plan to go to the next American Education Research Association event or what they thought of some papers presented at the last AERA, and, well, I'd be surprised if even ten of those hundred would have much to say.

Following the success of last year's event, NBC News is bringing back the National Teacher Town Hall to the 2011 Education Nation Summit.

But the events of last winter and spring illustrate the roller - coaster ride that awaits any school district that tries to tamper with a core education policy like student retention.

John Chubb, Bryan Hassel, Mark Bauerlein, Eleanor Laurans, and Mike Petrilli discuss whether digital learning is education's latest fad or its future at a Fordham Institute event held last week.

Justin Taylor, an «Education Evangelist» from Autodesk, attended last year's event and said «The roundtables have been brilliant, there's huge excitement.

Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, is delighted to announce that after the success of last year's event Children's Art Week will return in 2016, from Saturday 11 to Sunday 19 June, and previous school participants explain just how easy it is to get involved.

Members of the education community gathered last week to toast themselves and their Congressional allies at what has become the event of the year for those whose blood pressure rises at the thought of inadequate appropriations for Chapter 1 or student aid.

Last month Harvard Graduate School of Education held its first Mentor - Supervisor Institute, an event designed to support mentors and supervisors of HGSE's licensure candidates.

We know from attending a variety of education events over the last few months that those responsible for energy bills in school are often overwhelmed, confused and frustrated by the avalanche of information and options available and would give anything for some clarity and simplicity.

National Teacher Town Hall Returning to NBC Following the success of last year's event, NBC News is bringing back the National Teacher Town Hall to the 2011 Education Nation Summit.

As part of the awareness - raising drive, the REC spoke at last week's Westminster Education Forum event that brought together 200 representatives from schools, academies, local authorities and teaching unions.

Although they have been studying the education - finance situation since last October, when a state judge indicated that substantial changes were needed to balance the scales between wealthy and poor school districts, nothing prepared politicians in the state capital for last week's events.

The events of the last fifty years point in the direction of another national effort being mounted in the foreseeable future to accelerate improvement in education.

So in any event, I'm thinking this will be a commentary about Common Core, since it garnered the only discussion of education at the first Republican debate in Cleveland last Thursday.

Presented during a fringe event at the Liberal Democrat party conference in Glasgow last week, the report «Vision for science and mathematics education» summarises the society's recommendations for science and mathematics education over the next 20 years, including how to encourage girls to join STEM courses.

Meanwhile DeVos» lack of soft skills required of any political officeholder — along with her failure to hire a strong communications team who can help her prepare for public events — was also on full display last week when she criticized teachers and American public education for not being innovative during a speech before innovation - minded teachers and school leaders at SXSW's annual education conference.

Ed Week's Andrew Ujifusa writes that the «Every Student Succeeds Act hasn't been the only time in the last few years that events in Washington led states to rethink their accountability and other education policies.»

The U.S. Department of Education and Asia Society released a report last week entitled, «Improving Teacher Quality Around the World: The International Summit on the Teaching Profession,» addressing lessons shared during the two - day event held in New York City in March.

The education secretary was due to speak at the event in Telford on Saturday morning, but has pulled out at the last minute.

The organization, which supports education journalists, held a whole event focused on ESSA last October.

The free and exclusively online event — which attracted more than 900 participants last year — offers educators around the globe 24 sessions to support their work to implement and sustain a whole child approach to education.

The Hartford Courant article does an excellent job describing the events that took place at last night's Hartford Board of Education meeting.

That was the theme of an event last night sponsored by Tennesseans Reclaiming Education Excellence (TREE) and Gideon's Army for Children and held at the East Park Community Center.

NPR's legendary education reporter Claudio Sanchez (above) appeared at last weekend's EWA event for Spanish - language education reporters (#ewaespanol17).

Last November, I presented my book The Bilingual Revolution and the importance of bilingual education at The American Library in Paris, an event co-organized with the Association of American Women in Europe.

In July of last year, the Charles Koch Institute held an event in Nashville, «Education Opportunities: A Path Forward for Students in Tennessee,» to provide an «in - depth policy discussion» about public education and otheEducation Opportunities: A Path Forward for Students in Tennessee,» to provide an «in - depth policy discussion» about public education and otheeducation and other issues.

Last week, the American Enterprise Institute hosted an event discussing the failings of civics education in America.

When Edwards defeated scandal - plagued Republican David Vitter in last fall's governor's contest, the Louisiana's teachers» unions rejoiced: «It's not every day that education can say we have a champion in the governor's mansion, but today we certainly do,» Debbie Meaux, president of the Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE), said in February at an event co-hosted by LAE and the National Education Associatieducation can say we have a champion in the governor's mansion, but today we certainly do,» Debbie Meaux, president of the Louisiana Association of Educators (LAE), said in February at an event co-hosted by LAE and the National Education AssociatiEducation Association (NEA).

PPIC researchers analyzed the early results of two reforms in K — 12 education and presented their findings at a PPIC event in Sacramento last week.

Last year's Education Reform Now Event Chairs were education reform extraordinaire hedge - fund managers, John Sabat (SAC Capital Advisors LP), Michael Sabat (Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.) and Whitney Tilson (Kase Education Reform Now Event Chairs were education reform extraordinaire hedge - fund managers, John Sabat (SAC Capital Advisors LP), Michael Sabat (Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.) and Whitney Tilson (Kase education reform extraordinaire hedge - fund managers, John Sabat (SAC Capital Advisors LP), Michael Sabat (Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.) and Whitney Tilson (Kase Capital).

Without identifying everyone by name, in addition to me there was a man who worked for the college board, a former staff member who is now a public school parent, a current high school principal of an «A» rated school who was going to host Matt and Elisa at her school later that day, a school leader from a school that is featured as a «miracle» public school in Wendy Kopp's last book, and which gets mentioned at fundraiser events, a 1990 alum who has been teaching for 22 years, and a former TFA staff member who now works for the New York City Department of Education.

AFT President Randi Weingarten has become such an important player in the Clinton family universe that Clinton Global allowed her to use one of its events last September to announce the union's latest Trojan Horse for unionizing the early childhood education sector.

This was one particularly memorable quote from an event that the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) hosted last week with the Coalition for Evidence - based Education (CEBE): «Linking evidence and practice: what works?

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2 min readSXSW, the Austin - based conference that features events base around technology, education and music took place last week and I've now finally recovered from all the excitement of having all of these insanely talented minds congregating in one place.

Just last month at Creative Education event in Chicago, Apple unveiled its latest 9.7 - inch iPad with Apple Pencil support.

It's been about six years since Apple's last education - focused event, but the company's upcoming keynote on March 27th could mean more affordable devices and improved educational apps for classrooms and college campuses, a move designed to get more iOS devices in the hands of students.

Dr. Agnieszka Kent, one of our Board - Certified Cardiologists presented «The Ins and Outs of Feline Cardiomyopathy» at a Continuing Education event hosted by the Capital District Veterinary Medical Society last week.