America is leading the fight against global poverty, with strong education initiatives and humanitarian assistance.
The company has an active effort in education around STEM (or STEAM) education initiatives.
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It also provided us with an excellent platform for events like Startup Weekend, technology education initiatives and more.
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And the commission will examine the impact of current government education initiatives.
Mr Schleicher acknowledges that the hopeful, or simply naive, sometimes rifle through the PISA studies for shiny new education initiatives to pilfer.
He has also expanded access to Pell grants to allow for more Americans to attend college, and he will push forward with broad education initiatives.
In a major policy speech on his education initiatives, Bradley charged that Gore wants to spend more new money on defense than on improving the nation's schools.
Several education initiatives, including a call for more money to hire new teachers and build or renovate schools and limiting class sizes to 18 students for first, second and third grades.
Zuckerberg, a signatory of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, showed his generosity during the holiday season, gifting 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in December for education initiatives.
Gore, who earlier had outlined other education initiatives, said his proposal to expand the National Tuition Savings Plan would be portable, allowing parents to use the pre-paid tuition money in the state of their choice.
As a result of education initiatives and marketing and age restrictions, smoking has declined dramatically over time -- despite its legality for adults -- in one of the greatest public health success stories of the last generation.
In seven and a half years, he united education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening over 100 new schools, expanding after-school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public-private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.
Add to this landscape powerful education reform initiatives such as overhauled teacher evaluation systems, new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and an increased focus on social and emotional learning.
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Provincial Education Ministers in their remarks highlighted initiatives of basic education and literacy launched by their respective governments, identified hindrances faced, and supported the need of increasing resources for the education sector.
That only reinforces the importance of education and training initiatives, which is what we are here to discuss.
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The president's speech to the Michigan legislature marked his second appearance before state lawmakers to promote his education and welfare initiatives.
On the campaign trail, he pointed to accomplishments in housing, education and health initiatives and acknowledged he needs to do more on crime and government bureaucracy.
While reading the message of UNESCO Country Director, Dr. Kozue Kay Nagata, UNESCO Provincial Coordinator, Kazi Ayaz Mahessar acknowledged the efforts of Education and Literacy Department for its various initiatives to improve the education standards in the province.
Noting the paradox of high unemployment and skills shortages, South Africa's Minister for Higher Education and Training described initiatives to better align skills with needs, improve the quality of technical and vocational education and training and increase opportunities to do apprenticeships.
There are many exciting grassroots initiatives on education for sustainable development underway across the world.
Hence the Clinton administration's initiatives on education, health and a balanced budget.
In addition to providing artisans a sustainable market for their products and a resource for loans, MyMela also invests 20% of its profits in community improvement initiatives including education, healthcare, social services and vocational training projects.
Developing "a comprehensive health infrastructure for the delivery of health education, prevention and intervention initiatives" for blacks.
The trust will be used to support initiatives for improving education standards and to upgrade teaching methods.
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In that spirit, today the two Presidents agreed to initiate major initiatives advancing Higher Education and confronting Climate Change .
FIP, as the global federation bringing together pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists, is leading in fostering pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education development through its various initiatives and projects.
Add increased spending on education, energy and other initiatives, and federal expenditures, excluding defence, would rise to a new high of 18% of GDP in the coming decade.
In his new role, Mr. Klein, 64, will advise News Corp. on opportunities to invest in digital initiatives in the education market, a person familiar with the matter said.
And he added that it would be dedicated to advancing modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin's vision of building a better world through sport, culture, education, health and environment initiatives.
The forum was organised in association with the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and focused on the findings and conclusions from an OECD study to map the scale and scope of OER initiatives in higher education.
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