Sentences with phrase «philanthropist bill gates»

«Science that helps poor people is where capitalism really doesn't have the right incentive,» Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates told CNBC in an interview that aired on «Squawk Box» on Tuesday.

To improve K - 12 education, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates believes schools need better ways to measure and improve teacher progress.

Keynote speakers at past breakfast and dinner events have included author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, green jobs visionary Van Jones, urban revitalization strategy consultant Majora Carter, philanthropist Bill Gates on how to address climate change through clean energy innovation, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, business innovator Tom Steyer, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) Danny Kennedy, the creators of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, Nike's VP of the Innovation Accelerator Hannah Jones, and Mindy Lubber of Ceres.

Our events in Seattle and Portland have featured keynote speakers such as author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, green jobs visionary Van Jones, philanthropist Bill Gates on how to address climate change through clean energy innovation, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, business innovator Tom Steyer, Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) Danny Kennedy, the creators of Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously series, Nike's VP of Innovation Accelerator Hannah Jones, and Mindy Lubber of Ceres.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw an opportunity with a new federal education law that has widespread repercussions for American classrooms.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw an opportunity with a new federal education law that has widespread repercussions for American...

So many commentators take verbal shots at her that you'd think she had the policy - making power of, say, President Obama, or Education Secretary Arne Duncan, or billionaire education philanthropist Bill Gates.

Business leader and philanthropist Bill Gates touts the book as «truly important for the debate on what needs to be done to improve the success of post-secondary education in America.»

Los Angeles Unified is now led by a superintendent who graduated from the reform - minded Broad Superintendents Academy and who previously worked for education philanthropist Bill Gates.

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates believes profits should not always be the sole motivating factor.

Despite most the world's largest technology companies harking from the U.S., Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted the contribution made by the developing world in a speech Tuesday.

If you're looking for book suggestions to fill your reading list this year, you could do a lot worse that follow the blog of Microsoft - founder - turned - philanthropist Bill Gates.

Not exact matches

Billionaire, innovator, philanthropist, author, Bill Gates has worn a lot of hats — and inspired millions of people.

Bill and Melinda Gates are anything but «checkbook philanthropists.»

Reportedly one of the 400 richest people in China, the recycling magnate claims to be the No. 1 philanthropist in the country; Chen was reportedly worth $ 740 million in 2012, but he has pledged to give away most, if not all, of his wealth before his death, inspired by Bill Gates» «Giving Pledge.»

The philanthropist speaks about Warren Buffet's involvement in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dubbed the British Bill Gates, he's also a philanthropist and venture capitalist.

The Giving Pledge came from the reflections and input generated from many great conversations that Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett had with other philanthropists in the U.S. and abroad.

De Groot, who landed at number 33 on the list of 50, joins other well - known researchers and philanthropists including Dr. Paul Offit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Bill and Melinda Gates.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

The schools have attracted the attention of another education philanthropist: Bill Gates visited Summit Sierra in Seattle last year and praised what he saw on his «gatesnotes» blog.

With the Obama administration leading the charge and philanthropists like Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family footing the bill, America's school districts are buying into the education reform movement... for better or for woBill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family footing the bill, America's school districts are buying into the education reform movement... for better or for wobill, America's school districts are buying into the education reform movement... for better or for worse.

Backed by major philanthropists and investors such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, the ed - tech industry has aggressively pushed the idea of «personalized learning.»

Bill Gates and other philanthropists are reshaping public education policy with private cash.

I also find it fascinating that education philanthropists like Bill Gates have become such targets of antipathy.

She celebrates 20 years of reform movement success, but never tempers such self - congratulatory narcissism with unpleasant questions about why those who have no interest in disrupting the American class structure — such as Bill Gates and the heirs to Sam Walton's fortunes, by far the most generous education reform philanthropists — are so keen to support the TFA insurgency.

• Bill Gates, Technologist and philanthropist • Malcolm London, Poet, teacher and advocate • Ramsey Musallam, Educator and advocate • Rita F. Pierson, Ed.D, Education and anti-poverty advocate • Sir Ken Robinson, Social activist, educator and most - watched TED Talk speaker on TED.com

Although super-wealthy capitalists like Microsoft's Bill Gates, fellow computer mogul Michael Dell, real estate magnate Eli Broad, and the rapacious owners of Wal - Mart, the Walton Family, would like people to think of them as philanthropists, they are nothing more than down - and - dirty investors who hope to reap much more than they sow.

Bill Gates, the soft - spoken philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO, was on the attack today, complaining about schools that don't teach kids and teachers who get raises anyhow.

But they said its conclusions were narrow and failed to evaluate the full package of professional development and other measures that President Obama and philanthropists such as Bill Gates say are crucial to improving America's public schools.

Wealthy philanthropists, including Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, were pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into education reform.

Ravitch reserves special scorn for wealthy philanthropists like Bill Gates and other members of what she calls «The Billionaire Boys» Club.»

This «accountability» movement, backed by politicians such as Barack Obama and philanthropists including Bill Gates, has been closely associated with the rise of charter schools in the US and academies in Britain.

Education philanthropists like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, along with a number of hedge fund billionaires, think schools should be run like corporations.

Philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Eli Broad are targeting charitable donations to bring about key shifts — merit pay for teachers, for example, and more accountability.

And at some point, the wealth created became solidified as it were by either selling the business (as the great philanthropist Irving Harris did with his firm, Toni Home Permanents) or taking it public (think Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos with Microsoft and Amazon).

Bill Gates, the software innovator and development philanthropist who has recently championed a big research push to advance non-polluting energy choices, has weighed in with some new thoughts after reading a critique of his thesis by Richard Rosen of the Tellus Institute.

After Bill Gates explained his strategy for boosting energy access while limiting climate change in a videotaped interview we published on Tuesday, readers were invited to submit questions for the Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist and investor.

Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, marked several items off his 2015 to - do list when he announced the creation of two coalitions (one of international governments, the other of billionaire investors) for investing money in developing renewable energy innovations, while pledging one billion dollars of his own money to the effort.

Top philanthropists like Bill Gates and heads of state like Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark have endorsed the Copenhagen Consensus prioritization approach.