His mission was to act as evangelist for U.S. education and technology.
But the idea of a race between education and technology is also an interesting way of exploring the travails and the future of the media.
He is a visionary in the field of education and technology.
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We now have three years of evidence that our economic strategy works: reduce the deficit, sell more American products around the world, invest in education and technology.
The Race Between Education and Technology is a hefty read filled with data and charts and sometimes long passages written, regrettably, in economese, which likely have been and remain rich fodder for argument among economists.
Should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires -- or should we invest in education and technology and infrastructure, all the things that are going to help us out-innovate and out-educate and out-build other countries in the future?
In China, where private tutorial schools were unknown until the economy opened up in the 1990s, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year.
We also renewed our commitment to elevate our relation at higher level for comprehensive partnerships, and I welcome also the future cooperation between Indonesia and the United States in various fields such as trade and investment, education and technology, climate change, food and energy security, countering communicable diseases and also counterterrorism and people-to-people contact.
In their 2008 book, The Race Between Education and Technology, Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Laurence Katz argue that technological advancement was a major spur to educational attainment for the U.S., at least until the 1970s, and that this symbiotic relationship laid the grounds for almost a century of American prosperity and relative economic equality.
They are also two generations who are deeply attuned to the problems facing the environment and the need for the government to make smart choices about education and technology that will help them and their children survive in a new economic world that provides less stability and requires more adaptability than the one of their parents.
It includes welcome attention to developing national standards and tests, markedly strengthening education data (stay tuned for the Fordham Institute's own contribution on that front next week), enhancing research into "what works, " accelerating the development and use of education technology and strengthening teachers across multiple fronts.
Support the basic sciences and engineering programme and science policy activities in the cluster countries particularly for post-conflict countries, including practical science education in cooperation with the Education sector, promotion of access and retention of women in science and technology education, and research and development of renewable and alternative energies.
If you skew the budget toward education and information technology, you are being both for the poor and for business.
The UNESCO-Microsoft Task Force on Higher Education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will create a strategic plan of action to identify how ICT can be used by governments as a catalyst for change.
Determined to further enhance our relationship, we discussed ways of maximizing the work of the U.S.- Portugal Bilateral Commission, which facilitates cooperation in areas as diverse as defense and security, education, science and technology exchanges, economic revitalization, law enforcement, and development in the Azores.
Instead, the fund is designed to develop a generation of Brazilian technocrats by funding schools and programs that emphasize education in science and technology.
Lidia Brito is director of the Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development of UNESCO and former Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Mozambique.
Obama said that he would go slower but would not stop what he said were priorities: working toward energy independence, fixing the health care system and remaining competitive in education, science and technology.
Using a combination of diligence, data restrictions, staff training and education, regular technology updates and targeted software, small and medium-sized businesses can take matters into their own hands to stop cyberthreats from bringing down the business.
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And we also have to pay for investments that will help our economy grow and keep our country safe: education, research and technology, a strong military, and retirement programs like Medicare and Social Security.
They shortchanged investments in clean energy and education, in research and technology.
This partnership between USAID, World Education Mali, Design that Matters (affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the Ministry of Education has introduced simple and locally-appropriate technology that enables community members in predominately rural areas to learn to read, write and count at night.
This time, they want even deeper cuts to things like education and Medicare and research and technology.
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Massive deficits that have made it much harder to pay for the investments that built this country and provided the basic security that helped millions of Americans reach and stay in the middle class -- things like education and infrastructure, science and technology, Medicare and Social Security.
The UIS is the statistical office of UNESCO and the UN depositary for internationally comparable statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communication.
It brought together commissioners, education and ICT specialists, to discuss Technology, Broadband and Education: Advancing the Education for All Agenda, the report of the Broadband Commission's Working Group on Education.
Among other topics, the plenary sessions addressed private education, educational content, technology and education delivery, and female advancement in education.
There's a debate on a report by the Lords Communications Committee on broadband, and on a Science and Technology Committee report on Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
He touched on various topics from hot investment areas to education, regulation and technology innovation.
Professor Li said that developing sustainable mobility in China required the use of three tools: education, administration and technology.
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