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And in fact, if this is what coding is like, it will only be a narrow sub-community of people with special mathematical
skills
and technological background that can code.
Now those are important
skills
that aren't just relevant for coding.
It's probably not so likely, but regardless of what he does, he'll be able to make use of these design
skills
that he learned.
After a period of 33 years in exile, I went back to Libya, and with unique enthusiasm, I started organizing workshops on capacity building, on human development of leadership
skills.
But I want to tell you the story of PISA, OECD's test to measure the knowledge and
skills
of 15-year-olds around the world, and it's really a story of how international comparisons have globalized the field of education that we usually treat as an affair of domestic policy.
Look at the toxic mix of unemployed graduates on our streets, while employers say they cannot find the people with the
skills
they need.
And that tells you that better degrees don't automatically translate into better
skills
and better jobs and better lives.
So with PISA, we try to change this by measuring the knowledge and
skills
of people directly.
Her project's goal is to highlight the expressive qualities of materials while focusing on the creativity and
skills
of the builder.
These leading, innovative, nonprofit folks, who are using business
skills
in a very leveraged way to solve social problems.
It took me hours and hours a day to build my
skills
up to the next level.
And so, the way I'm thinking of texting these days is that what we're seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills, and that means that they're able to do two things.
These programs can promote more and better jobs by, you build it, you invest in high-quality preschool, it develops the
skills
of your local workforce if enough of them stick around, and, in turn, that higher-quality local workforce will be a key driver of creating jobs and creating higher earnings per capita in the local community.
So for example, numerous research studies have shown if you look at what really drives the growth rate of metropolitan areas, it's not so much low taxes, low cost, low wages; it's the
skills
of the area.
Particularly, the proxy for
skills
that people use is percentage of college graduates in the area.
They are growing because they have high levels of
skills.
So when we invest in other people's children, and build up those skills, we increase the overall job growth of a metro area.
I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is going to find it more difficult to introduce new technology, new production techniques.
Even if everyone at my firm has good skills, if the workers at the suppliers to my firm do not have good skills, my firm is going to be less competitive competing in national and international markets.
So clearly the productivity of firms in Silicon Valley has a lot to do with the
skills
not only of the workers at their firm, but the workers at all the other firms in the metro area.
Okay, so to sum up, there is a lot of research evidence that early childhood programs, if run in a high-quality way, pay off in higher adult
skills.
There's a lot of research evidence that those folks will stick around the state economy, and there's a lot of evidence that having more workers with higher
skills
in your local economy pays off in higher wages and job growth for your local economy, and if you calculate the numbers for each dollar, we get about three dollars back in benefits for the state economy.
So there's really only one area where we're near the top, and that's in failing to give our teachers the help they need to develop their
skills.
Because embracing the shake for me wasn't just about art and having art
skills.
It turned out to be about life, and having life
skills.
They don't need any traditional construction
skills.
Now, young dolphins learn a lot as they're growing up, and they use their teenage years to practice social skills, and at about the age of nine, the females become sexually mature, so they can get pregnant, and the males mature quite a bit later, at around 15 years of age.
The reason it's different is that, just in the past few years, our machines have started demonstrating
skills
they have never, ever had before: understanding, speaking, hearing, seeing, answering, writing, and they're still acquiring new
skills.
The robots are not going to take all of our jobs in the next year or two, so the classic Econ 101 playbook is going to work just fine: Encourage entrepreneurship, double down on infrastructure, and make sure we're turning out people from our educational system with the appropriate
skills.
Some conjecture that the role of play in the animal kingdom is to hone
skills
and develop capabilities.
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