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Our Education System Needs Radical Innovation - A Message of Hope from Charles Leadbeater

Building Personal Strength

It was stuff the system had decided ought to be in the curriculum. And as I continue to hear that the problems of education are getting worse, even as the world becomes more challenging, I wish this were not the case. State Boards of Education meet and make decisions about curricula based on petty political agendas. "We

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CEO Spotlight: Interview with Cyril Samovskiy, CEO and Founder of Mobilunity

CEO Insider

Even back to 2010, Ukraine was already known for the Development talent it has. With its very much engineering-like traditional educational system, with dozens of thousands of highly educated and very sharp-minded people getting to the “wild” market of the 90s, it was obvious such a talent capital […].

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Is Higher Education Too Expensive for the Middle Class?

Coaching Tip

The middle class has traditionally believed that higher education was crucial for climbing the success ladder and making money. However, many boomer college students decided to take more liberal education options having little fear of finding careers that paid well. Can only the Wealthy Can Afford College Today?

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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers found that the best-performing companies tended to make significant and complementary investments in their workforce, their IT systems, and their manufacturing processes. Educated workers are known to be an essential ingredient for that system. Strong returns.

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0819 | How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen Within Organizations with Jim Kouzes

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Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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Rural Students Disadvantaged When It Comes To University

The Horizons Tracker

After researching data from around 800,000 English students starting university in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016, they found that cities appear to provide an “escalator effect” into these universities that don’t exist in rural areas.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway.