"We believe we're not just preparing students for government measures, we're preparing students for life, " he says.
American universities currently do a better job overall at preparing students for the workforce.
Schools also face greater scrutiny to ensure that their programs are actually preparing students for real jobs.
It is preparing students for what a recent Forbes cover story calls the rising share economy.
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Universities will have the explicit mission of preparing students for work, something many now see as not their problem.
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But what separates his firm from the others is the importance Stencil Consulting places on preparing students for their new life abroad.
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With so much of the school day focused on preparing students for standardized math and reading tests, nutrition has been edged out.
My Administration is committed to enhancing American education by raising standards, making higher education more affordable, and preparing students for high-skill jobs and civic participation.
Overcoming these myths, while preparing students to succeed in school and in the 21st century economy, has the potential to transform the futures of our young people.
Adaptive learning also benefits instructors: By better preparing students for class, adaptive learning enables instructors to spend more time delving into advanced concepts and engaging students in high-level discussion.
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Teachers received practice tests aligned with the Common Core last summer and fall so they could begin preparing their students, but many districts don't yet have the necessary books and materials to teach them.
Education policy needs to aggressively adopt the same kind of risk adjustment measures, if we hope to identify which high schools are truly doing the best job of educating their students and preparing them for the future.
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For schools that are tasked with both keeping students safe and preparing them to succeed in their future endeavors, I can see the rationale behind social media monitoring.
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Assistant head teacher Spencer Doggett explained that the students were also preparing a piece entitled The Good, the Bad and the Ugly about yesterday's budget as well as reflecting the death of Elizabeth Taylor.
Circumstances change and change rapidly, and the career students think they are preparing for today will simply disappear in ten years.
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But despite the benefits of preparing for college using Facebook, students do admit that online networking takes some getting used to.
It was a sunless December day in 1984, and Coe was preparing his first technical talk to students and faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As of September, several universities in Germany and Austria were offering credit for the courses and Colorado State and University of Washington were preparing to do so, though students at University of Washington were going to be required to pay a fee and also do some extra work with a University of Washington instructor.
Students in the upper years preparing for exams will be able to attend every day, the school said.
Santa Barbara City College is a big urban college with about 21, 000 students and a strong focus on preparing graduates to transfer to four-year universities.
That's why we'll follow the example of places like the Met Center in Rhode Island that give students that individual attention, while also preparing them through real-world, hands-on training the possibility of succeeding in a career.
But many of these doctors who arrived in the 1960s and 70s, are now preparing for retirement and there is a reluctance among medical students and newly qualified doctors to take on their practices and posts.
So a lack of business or social networks is a huge barrier that we address in Year Up by connecting students to mentors, guest speakers, and preparing them in their internships so they walk out of there with 20 people they can go to for advice.
Instead of joining the crowds attending the Shanghai Expo, I spent much of my summer preparing to serve as a chaperone for a group of college students traveling to India earlier this month on a two-week study tour.
In Cincinnati, Taft High School went from handing out only one diploma for every five students to graduating 95 percent of its seniors, and preparing them for careers in technology.
While we have each participated in our own way in building an advocacy movement around Darfur, it has been the high-school and college students who have made Darfur a political issue too important to be ignored, and who are now preparing similar campaigns for Congo.
While the debate continues, most financial planners and academic experts are preparing for some changes in this federal student-loan program, which was used by 7.4 million undergraduate students enrolled last year.
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