The letter covers the foundation's wide-ranging efforts in infectious diseases, agricultural innovation and education.
We cannot leave innovation and education to local school districts because they're not big enough.
The story around the School of One points to a few other principles of innovation in education.
"It's a culture, it's an economy, it's innovation, education, healthcare, it's all of these things, " says Coleman.
And it shouldn't take a devastating storm to bring this kind of innovation to education in our country.
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To me, this is a stunning concession for the supposed ideal system designed to scale innovation in education.
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Cutting back on key investments in innovation, education, and infrastructure destroys the foundations of American economic prosperity and hampers economic growth.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine.
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All these investments -- in innovation, education and infrastructure -- will make America a better place to do business and create jobs.
In the end, unfortunately, the Republican position was -- as it continues to be -- which is that they would rather see dramatic cuts in national defense, dramatic cuts in research, innovation, education, infrastructure, border security.
Rahim Kanani is founder and editor-in-chief of World Affairs Commentary, where he authors articles on international affairs and social change, and interviews global leaders on topics such as human rights, development, security, philanthropy, innovation, education, and more.
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In my opinion though, they belong in the context of the conference in which people have the opportunity to debate them not at a closing awards dinner meant to cap a once-again successful and high-spirited conference on innovation in education.
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Even as we cut out the things we can afford to do without, we got a responsibility to invest in those areas that will have the biggest impact on our future, and those things are innovation, education and infrastructure.
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But we simply do not see entire new high-tech sectors emerge without the kind of direct, proactive, and comprehensive suite of investments in innovation, education, infrastructure, manufacturing and market creation that led to each of the 20th century U.S. technology booms mentioned above.
Instead, what the United States needs to build a competitive clean energy sector capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs across the clean energy value chain is a comprehensive set of sustained public investments in cleantech research and innovation, education and workforce training, advanced manufacturing, and market creation ( more on that strategy here).
Innovation in higher education, such as online teaching, would help raise the supply of skilled workers.
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Now, I believe it starts with investments in innovation, in education, and a 21st century infrastructure.
Education innovation will require scalable, national, open, interoperable systems that support data feedback loops.
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The federal government must get into the education innovation business in a way that it just has not done.
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As innovation increases in education in the years ahead, the way we prepare some teachers may need to change as well.
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All of the finalists had impressive stories of innovation applied to education.
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Peter Stokes, an expert on education innovation at Northeastern University, said more such efforts will follow likely to the alarm of some faculty.
Education innovation and school choice are not needed to fight rapacious unions and bureaucrats too often the most prominent focus of conservative education concerns but because poor children and their parents deserve better schools.
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There is likely to be a wave of innovation in further education, particularly online, that will cater to this need in a more flexible, personalised way than the traditional degree or postgraduate course.
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At APEC WES, I assembled a panel of five great women leaders representing the key sectors of the new innovation economy: Education and research, government and public policy, social entrepreneurs, and business and technology.
But officials are at pains to point out that, rather than help specific industries, the main thrust of the new policy is to try to boost competitiveness more generally by promoting innovation, higher education and training.
And, as I learned from Hastings at the stellar Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, the former math teacher has used his teaching, technology, and entertainment industry experience to understand the future of education too.
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