Sentences with phrase «need education entrepreneurs»

That's why we need education entrepreneurs, leaders who can forge new and meaningful pathways to learning for all children.

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While O'Leary's decision also applies to entrepreneurs who are still in school, he stressed the importance of finishing an education to get the skills and contacts that a budding business owner might need later on.

As an entrepreneur who's been a part of the MENA startup ecosystem for quite some time now, Kassim notes that VC funding still has room for improvement, and adds that better education is needed to add value to the region's startups.

Research included libraries, on - line research, magazines such as Entrepreneur, Franconnect, and visiting schools and organizations to test the need for Abrakadoodle Art Education.

«Policy, education, funding and pipeline for women entrepreneurs — it's all something we need to rethink.»

It's an age - old question: Are entrepreneurs a special breed, born into this world with a drive and need to succeed that most of humanity lacks, or can they can be created through education, experience and mentorship?

Our entrepreneurs graduating from law, business, computer science or engineering programs need to receive the proper education for commercializing on the global stage.

We empower future leaders with the entrepreneurial skills they need to succeed and our capstone initiative is the Legatum Fellowship Program which provides entrepreneurs with a world - class education and substantial tuition support.

It's one thing to make a health or education app, but another thing to actually integrate it with hospitals and schools — that requires policymakers, AOL co-founder Steve Case said on 15 April at the 41st annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. Drawing on lessons from AOL's first days when the web broke ground, Case offered his views on the future of science and technology policy and stressed the need for would - be Internet entrepreneurs to engage productively with government partners.

If we want tomorrow's scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors to «look like America,» our schools need to take special pains with the education of high - ability kids from disadvantaged circumstances.

Only Joan Snowden insists that entrepreneurs can never provide the big fixes education needs because their efforts are not scalable

(Indeed, several education entrepreneurs told me they wouldn't expand their projects into cities where there isn't a TFA presence because they couldn't be sure of attracting the talent they need.)

Do you believe we should put in place career and technical education in high school that actually give kids the skills they need to be innovators, to be entrepreneurs to fill the jobs being created in today's knowledge - based and information economy?

Prior to his appointment as Secretary, he served as the Managing Director at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to transform public education in high - need urban communities by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.

Already, some proponents have equated personalized learning with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs touting cutting - edge technologies that will radically «disrupt» the traditional top - down instructional and brick - and - mortar education model, aligning the classroom and school experience to how today's young people interact and learn and the workforce needs of tomorrow.

As the only CDFI in the country focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school facilities with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American public education system

CityBridge identifies education entrepreneurs with the relentlessness, creativity and acumen needed to build innovative schools to a high standard of excellence.

Stephen Wilmarth is an education futurist and social entrepreneur who brings innovative thinking to curriculum design issues arising out of rapidly changing workforce needs in a global knowledge economy.

Emphasizing the need for additional effective education entrepreneurs to join the work of reforming America's lowest performing public schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to chartereducation entrepreneurs to join the work of reforming America's lowest performing public schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charterEducation Arne Duncan told reporters during a conference call this afternoon that states must be open to charter schools.

Broad eligibility is important to create a critical mass of ESA students over time that will encourage education entrepreneurs to provide new and innovating ways of meeting students» learning needs.

This guide for developers, startups and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

But there's a difference between experienced educators identifying real school needs and non-educator «entrepreneurs» swooping in with grandiose talk of «transforming» or «disrupting» education, using business methods to extract savings, or improving teaching (even replacing teachers!)

Rhee has emerged as the leader of an unlikely coalition of politicians, philanthropists, financiers and entrepreneurs who believe the nation's $ 500 billion - a-year public education system needs a massive overhaul.

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»

You'll find snippets on what lawyers and legal entrepreneurs need to know regarding regulation, legal education, the business of law, other on - topic articles, upcoming events, and more — all in a snack size serving of commentary, with links, and an occasional dollop of rant.

We represent entrepreneurs, start - ups, emerging companies, established companies, business owners and not - for - profit organizations in a variety of industries including e-commerce, internet ventures, education, retail, advertising, media, professional services, many times as the entity's full - service outside general counsel when the business does not either have the need or budget for a full - time general counsel on its staff.

To meet the needs of educators and entrepreneurs, the nonprofit discussed its expansion plans this week, including strategic partnerships with venture firm Rethink Education and Zynga.org, the charitable arm of social - game publisher Zynga.