My best guess is that absent a much more rigorous course of study, an end to our obsession with skills-focused education, and getting over our long-standing aversion to a content-rich curriculum, you will over time see a fadeout.
The benefits of this promotion speak for itself: not only are more employees using their paid volunteer hours than in years past, more are getting involved in the skills-based pro bono programs that HP is so assiduously advocating.
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While increasingly faster communications are here to stay, face-to-face skills have been a staple for getting business done for too long to think they will ever go out of style altogether.
So if our kids are spending all their time playing video games, and somebody else's kids are getting the math and science skills to invent video games -- (laughter) -- we're not going to be number one.
With changing economies that reward skills, it is anyway getting harder to move up the ladder from low-wage jobs to better-paid ones.
Maybe through a combination of factors, such as more complex television, standardized test-taking skills, the internet and other new technologies, we are simply getting better at taking traditional IQ tests.
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We ought to pass the GI bill for America's workers I proposed -- that would give every unemployed and underemployed person a skills grant to use in getting the training that he or she needs.
The team is now in talks with E-skills, the government's sector skills council for business and IT, about getting the Raspberry FishPi into schools.
He adds that getting out of the strike-carrier business for ten years means that critical skills will be lost.
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Many executives risk getting demoted or dismissed because they rate their leadership skills higher than their boss or co-workers do, several recent studies have found.
While we should maintain the law's strong focus on getting kids to proficiency in reading and math, grade-level math and reading skills are just the beginning of what children will need to succeed in 21st-century workplaces.
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