Starting in the 2025-26 school year, Washington State’s Hockinson School District (HSD) is partnering with Otus and Discovery Education to better track student learning and growth.
Over the past several years, the circular economy — a system that repurposes rather than discards existing goods — has been gaining momentum, driven by a combination of powerful forces.
Technology is not stagnant and keeping up can prove to be a challenge, especially in the education sector. But in the heart of Australia’s capital, the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) is setting an inspiring example of how education can evolve to meet challenges
The company opened a clinical physiology lab near the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, to conduct its clinical trials not only with a wide array of participants but with more speed and frequency, leading to faster innovation.
FedEx teamed up with the World Vision Foundation of Thailand to help the Pa Deng community in Phetchaburi province. They donated and set up solar-powered water filtration systems to make sure people there have consistent access to clean water.
When disasters strike, timing is everything. The faster Heart to Heart International (HHI) can respond, the more lives we can touch. But speed and impact don’t happen without training and preparation.
This summer marks the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the groundbreaking civil rights law that transformed access to public spaces, digital tools and employment for the tens of millions of people with disabilities.
At Cisco, packaging sustainability is a key aspect of our strategy to transition to a circular business modelzx. We do this by designing packaging that protects our products while also minimizing environmental impact.
On Friday, September 11, New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez will do some trading of his own – but not the baseball variety – when he represents the Players Trust at Cantor Fitzgerald’s annual Charity Day.
The Blueberry Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Indiana and typically draws 600,000 people every year over the Labor Day Weekend. Republic Services of Culver, Indiana has provided recycling and waste collection services for the community for many years and is a proud supporter of the Blueberry Festival.
Right from the start, the Italian food company Barilla has combined the achievement of economic goals with social commitments to the areas in which it operates. Knowledge of social and economic contexts together with integrity, transparency and innovation, enabled the founders to identify their own entrepreneurial style, and hand it down from generation to generation.
August 26 was National Cherry Popsicle Day and, for the third year in a row, Carnival Cruise Line provided a delicious treat of hundreds of cherry popsicles to the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, one of the cruise line's top charitable partners.
In 2012, the Sitio del Niño tissue mill in El Salvador drew the attention of Kimberly-Clark Product Supply leaders from around the world.
In the preceding months, the mill had become famous for delivering a five percent reduction in energy use and $1.5 million in cost savings, all with less than a $0.5 million investment.
Aligning Capital with the Conservation of Nature. Find out why and how The Nature Conservancy works with Wall Street. Today's environmental challenges are bigger than ever. And a rapidly growing population coupled with climate change will only exacerbate current threats. Big challenges like these will require bold solutions. The environmental movement must try new approaches and scale up our work so it’s bigger, better and faster
Kaitlin Sylvester is a marine and freshwater scientist in AECOM’s environment business. In an AECOM Impact blog post, she details her Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) diving experience, why she has such a "cool job" and why she is passionate about her work.
Mejorar la experiencia de nuestros clientes y volverla más eficiente es el objetivo de Sumando, programa que a través de diversas iniciativas y proyectos conducirá a Grupo Financiero Banorte, hacia un nuevo modelo de negocio enfocado en el cliente, el cual sin duda nos dará una ventaja competitiva única en el sector al permitirnos conocer detalladamente los gustos, las necesidades, los hábitos de compra, el estilo y las preferencias de cada cliente.
Improving and making customer experience more efficient is Sumando’s purpose, this program will lead Grupo Financiero Banorte, through various initiatives and projects, to a new business model focused on the client, which certainly will give us a competitive advantage in the industry - unique in treating each client while knowing their preferences, needs, style and purchasing habits in detail.
Smart home technology leader Nexia™ Home Intelligence, a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), and Rachio, maker of the Iro Smart Sprinkler Controller, announced new compatibility that combines Iro’s smart-sensing irrigation technology with the convenience and flexibility of the Nexia home automation system and all-in-one app.
The 2015 results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Review have been announced today by RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The DJSI World includes only the top 10% of companies per industry, making it the gold standard for corporate sustainability.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) TECH 2020 Task Force visited the Bloomberg Tech Hub in San Francisco on Tuesday in a final stop of a tour through Silicon Valley this week to advance the CBC TECH 2020 initiative. Launched in May, CBC TECH 2020 is a five-year plan developed to address the underrepresentation of African Americans in the technology industry.
Thinner, sleeker, and lighter are hallmarks of the marketing strategy that inoculates consumers with the obsolescence bug long before functionality actually falters.
En Amérique du Nord, septembre signifie la rentrée pour la plupart des étudiants. Chez Goldcorp, nous croyons qu’il faut redonner à la collectivité, et contribuer à l’éducation est l’une des meilleures façons de créer des bienfaits positifs à long terme dans les collectivités où nous vivons et travaillons. Nous allons partager une série d’articles au cours des prochaines semaines pour mettre en valeur les nouvelles initiatives en matière d’éducation que nous avons mises de l’avant pendant la dernière année. Cette semaine, nous vous présentons la belle histoire d’une personne qui, après avoir passé très près de décrocher à l’adolescence, termine maintenant son doctorat grâce à Passeport pour ma réussite Canada.
September in North America means back to school for most students. At Goldcorp, we believe contributing to education is one of the best ways we can create long-lasting positive benefits in the communities where we live and work. We will share a multi-part series over the few weeks to highlight the new educational initiatives we’ve invested in over the past year. This week we share with you a success story of a teen who went from almost dropping out to now completing his PhD thanks to Pathways to Education Canada.
Para la mayoría de los estudiantes en Norteamérica, septiembre significa volver a clases. En Goldcorp, creemos que contribuir a la educación es una de las mejores maneras en que podemos crear beneficios positivos a largo plazo en las comunidades donde vivimos y trabajamos. En las siguientes semanas, pondremos a disposición una serie para destacar las nuevas iniciativas educacionales en las que invertimos el año pasado. Esta semana, compartimos con ustedes la exitosa historia de un adolescente que casi abandona su educación y ahora se encuentra finalizando su doctorado con la ayuda de Pathways to Education Canada (Vías para la educación de Canadá).
If anybody should know how to build a fully solar-powered house, it’s Moritz Limpinsel. The 32-year-old native of Germany has devoted his studies to solar cells, just completing a Ph.D. in chemistry and materials physics at the University of California, Irvine. Except, knowing how to and actually doing it are worlds apart.
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Cascale organizes and participates in a series of events, leveraging its position as a global convener of close to half the sector to bring together...
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