{"id":203,"date":"2006-09-14T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/09\/14\/microsoft-creates-future-workers\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T15:00:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T19:00:18","slug":"microsoft-creates-future-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/09\/14\/microsoft-creates-future-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft creates future workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2006\/TECH\/ptech\/09\/07\/school.of.future.ap\/story.school.ap.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/><br \/>\nPHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) &#8212; Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools &#8220;obsolete&#8221; and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education.<br \/>\nAfter three years of planning, the Microsoft Corp.-designed &#8220;School of the Future&#8221; opened its doors Thursday, a gleaming white modern facility looking out of place amid rows of ramshackle homes in a working-class West Philadelphia neighborhood.<br \/>\nThe school is being touted as unlike any in the world, with not only a high-tech building &#8212; students have digital lockers and teachers use interactive &#8220;smart boards&#8221; &#8212; but also a learning process modeled on Microsoft&#8217;s management techniques.<br \/>\nRead entire article at: <a title=\"CNN.com - Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system - Sep 7, 2006\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/ptech\/09\/07\/school.of.future.ap\/index.html\">CNN.com &#8211; Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system &#8211; Sep 7, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) &#8212; Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools &#8220;obsolete&#8221; and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/09\/14\/microsoft-creates-future-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}