With its latest device, LeapFrog's continuing to fight the good fight: teaching kids essential skills through the power of consumer electronics.

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After a few years of teaching engineering, he joined Duke Power in 1976 as a design engineer, rising steadily to president by 1994.

FORBES: Trading places

So Stevenson developed a proposal with Wyss that demonstrated the financial need of HBS doctoral students and the power of their research and teaching to make the world a better place.

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Despite unionist alarm, Mr McGuinness as education minister has neither the power nor the inclination to make the teaching of Gaelic compulsory in all Northern Ireland's schools.

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Spitznagel and Taleb ran another fund Empirica together from 1999 to 2004, but Taleb has now retired from trading to concentrate on teaching the world how to hedge against trickier black swans like nuclear power crises and sovereign debt crises.

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After a few years teaching engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he joined Duke Power in 1976 as a design engineer, rising steadily to president by 1994.

FORBES: Trading Places

But they say that too often they are used without a strong understanding of their power to transform education, and many schools still use technology to support 20th Century teaching methods and learning objectives.

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