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21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."
Arrow Solutions Group
- Report highlights importance of early childhood education
Children who attend high-quality pre-kindergarten programs are more likely to graduate from high school, says a new report that calls on states and communities to build an aligned system to support early childhood learning and kindergarten programs.
- Business moves to center of school policy debate
Critics are quick to insist that a public entity such as a school system cannot, in fact, be run like a business. But there are office-holders and corporate leaders all over the country right now who are convinced that, at least in some ways, it can.
- Survey reveals need for tech skills in college, workforce
A new survey reinforces the concern that while students must have technology skills to succeed as they enter college and the workforce, their schools are not meeting this important need.
Workforce Development
- Career Opportunities - Multiple Tech Positions - Arrow Solutions Group
At ASG, we are passionate about fostering successful relationships with our customers and candidates--relationships where quality, honesty and respect matter.
Highway 12 Ventures
- Helmets to Hardhats
Helmets to Hardhats connects veterans into promising careers in the construction industry.
TechRanchCome Home Montana
- Bozeman, Montana allocates $25,000 to help struggling local business incubator - TechRanch
In the past 10 years, companies that received assistance from TechRanch have created roughly 500 jobs statewide.
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunity - GIS Coordinator - State of Montana
This position is responsible for creating and converting electronic data files into representations of demographic and socioeconomic data and information.
- Montana Career Opportunity - IT Manager - Family Retreat
IT Manager Family retreat an hour from Missoula wants full-time IT Manager to maintain our systems. Mac support exp. or Apple certification preferred.
- Montana Career Opportunities - Customer Care Manager - Product Marketing Specialist, Blackfoot Telecommunications Group
We offer rewarding careers along with the opportunity to live and work in picturesque western Montana.
- Coming Home to Montana: It's About the People
The other thing I had forgotten about my Montana, Rocky Mountain folks, was how incredibly talented and well-educated so many of them are.
Montana Economic Development
- Resodyn Hosts 'Energetics' confab in Butte, Montana this week
Resodyn mixers use low frequency acoustic waves to completely mix materials, which can reduce labor by as much as 85 percent while eliminating the potential for cross-contamination and other advantages.
- "Champions for a Cause" Montana Silversmiths and Special K Ranch Generate Bright New Days Through Mutually Beneficial Creative Solutions
"It's kind of a marriage between old world craftsmanship and new-age technology," Ruebusch said. "When people come to work, they need to be inspired to do great things every day. I think environment can do that."
- Power storage system in works: Montana's Zinc Air says product a cost-effective solution
"We think we have found the lowest-cost solution to energy storage."
Regional Economic Development
- Great Falls Development Authority Receives National Association of Development Organizations 2011 Innovation Award
"This was a team effort of the entire region", stated GFDA President Brett Doney. "Thank you to the many business leaders and economic development partners who worked to make it a real market-based assessment that is already producing results."
Careers
- Wyoming and Montana among states exploring jobs in 'green' technologies
A group of six states including Wyoming is exploring ways in which the deployment of "green" technologies might affect the job market in coming years.
- Do economic development projects live up to the hype?
All across the United States, communities continue to look for that big "economic development" project, and they often compete amongst themselves using incentives paid for by taxpayers.
Funding and Building your Business
- Are Entrepreneurs Born or Taught?
Is being an entrepreneur in your DNA, or can it be taught?
- Cloud computing to alter workforce
In another sign of the Internet's ability to streamline business processes and make others irrelevant, cloud computing is poised to have a serious impact on a segment of the workforce that never expected to see job cuts or a weakening in demand for its services: traditional information-technology workers.
Incubators and R&D
- 7 (really 8) Classic Business Movies Every Entrepreneur Should Watch
Learning Business From the Big Screen
- The Most Important Question Peter Thiel Asks Any Startup Looking For Money
So what's the right answer?
- Too Busy for Social Media Marketing Could Be Fatal
I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don't know where or how to start.
- Enchant Your Employees
Empower them to do what's right.
- Don't Let Personal Biases Sabotage Your Startup
The worst case is called the "passion trap," where a pattern of beliefs, choices, and behaviors feel good and become self-reinforcing, but lead to disaster.
Montana Education Excellence
- University of Montana Research View Online Spring 2011
Wild Prairie Dancers
- MSU Researchers pushing scientific boundaries in Yellowstone Lake
One might look out at Yellowstone Lake and say, "Ok, that's a pretty big lake." Yet MSU Biologist John Varley is starting to see the ocean.
Montana Education/Business Partnerships
- Federal education officials threaten to curb Montana funding over No Child Left Behind compliance
"We're sort of in this corner where we've gone through the process, we've met our timelines, and at the 11th hour they're talking about sanctions," Juneau said. "We're still having to adhere to an old law that everybody in the department admits is broken and having to follow these new priorities of the department."
- Bitterroot College Program Growth Leads To Expansion
"There clearly is a demand in the Bitterroot for easier access to higher education opportunities," said John Robinson, chair of the BCP Steering Committee. "We're eager to grow and continue to provide additional services to our students."
Oregon Business
- Montana State University College of Business seeks area businesses and non-profits for consultation
During the four-month courses, students will help manage special consulting projects requested by area businesses and non-profit organizations.
Education
- Big-name tech companies resume migration into Oregon's Silicon Forest
Intel now employs more Oregonians than any other business.
Community
- Why you want to go to college: In 140 characters or less
At the University of Iowa, a good tweet is worth $37,000.
Connectivity & Communications
- The Story of Seymour
"It just takes time. People have to understand that building a strong community foundation will not happen immediately. That is why we have worked so hard to involve everyone in the community--because patience only follows trust."
Non-Profit News
- Google Executive Discusses Social Networks
One of the more popular features of the Google+, according to Schmidt, was the video chat function, which has caught the attention of younger Web surfers.
- Major fiber optic project begins on Montana reservations
"The rural community has been left out," Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes tribal council member Carole Lankford said. "It's time to just get up to speed with telecommunications and allow our children to have better opportunities in education and all different areas."
- Google's 1 Gbps Network Spurs Big Ideas in Kansas City
Communities entering into PPPs must own the processes for generating the outcomes they wish broadband to deliver.
- "Art, Design, Portland" District Offers Opportunities To Work, Play, and Profit in Portland's New Economy
Shared builder spaces have popped up around the country throughout the last decade.
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