Sentences with phrase «n't close their skills gap»

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Brad Smith, who is Microsoft's general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs and based in Redmond, Washington, said, «Unless we close the skills gap, we're not going to fully address the employment gap.»

As a close look at the data from PISA reveals, the income gap in the United States does not explain the inability of our schools to teach our students basic math, science and reading skills.

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.

It is clear that standardized testing can never close the achievement gap, that the Common Core Standards are not good learning and do not give students the skills they need for their future, and that the education «reform» effort is not reform at all but a way to remove public education as a right for all while it provides substantial financial profit for the investors.

Seeking to serve students at risk of not succeeding in a traditional setting, the school fosters the knowledge, skills and habits of mind necessary to close student achievement gaps in mathematics and reading literacy and provide a community of engaged learners and participatory citizens.

While this isn't surprising, it makes it all the more urgent to close the skills gaps in science, technology, engineering and maths to support the recovery.»

Be honest with yourself because if you don't have the necessary skills or experience to attract your dream job right now, you can inventory the qualifications and begin to close that gap.