Building Global Economies: From the Schoolhouse to the Workplace
Schools need to be globally competitive. The best graduates from New York City's schools are not competing for jobs with the best graduates of Boston's schools; but with the best graduates in the world.
If we look at most of the world's problems (poverty, disease, AIDS, hunger) the root cause is the lack of education. Nations need to improve their educational systems in order to improve their economies.
Avenues: The World School, a exclusive school set to open in 2012 in New York City, will be one of the most forward-looking and global schools on the planet. But will this model fix America's educational system or just exacerbate inequalities?
Eric Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO, Gooder AI, argues machine learning (ML) projects go astray because their stakeholders focus too often on the technological fireworks — the “rocket science” of predictive models.