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Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues On Thursday, at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center in Washington, D.C., a record number of attendees, including policy makers, educators, industry leaders and others, gathered to discuss how education innovators design responsive, engaging...

Posted by Anthony Salcito Vice President, Worldwide Education, Microsoft A new study sponsored by Microsoft Partners in Learning and the Pearson Foundation provides clear evidence linking 21st century skills and student engagement in school with higher quality of work later in life. This study, conducted...

Posted by Jane Broom Director of Community Affairs, Microsoft In a global economy that’s increasingly driven by technological innovation, computer science skills have become as fundamental as the traditional “three R’s.” But unfortunately, our nation’s schools haven’t...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues On March 28, approximately 75 leading policy makers and thought-leaders from industry, nonprofit and government engaged in a discussion on how to ensure that U.S. students and schools have what they need to attain the computer science knowledge...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Washington State can create and fill 160,000 new jobs and reduce its unemployment rate by up to two percentage points over the next five years by closing the gap between the skills employers...

Posted by John Scott Tynes Imagine Cup Competition Manager, Microsoft At a time when good jobs in IT are going unfilled, there is a strong desire among parents and educators to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in K-12 schools. The need to embrace STEM skills early...

Posted by Cameron Evans National & Chief Technology Officer of U.S. Education, Microsoft How would you react if you learned that an outside agency came to your child’s school and, without your knowledge or consent, collected confidential data about your child and then used the data they...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Last week, four governors and approximately 150 policy thought-leaders joined us at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center for third annual State Solutions Conference with Politico , coinciding with the National Governors Association winter...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft This is the second in a series of blog posts by Microsoft executives regarding the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Read the first blog post on the Citizenship blog...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, The Seattle Times featured an editorial supporting Microsoft’s National Talent Strategy proposal that outlines ideas for securing U.S. competitiveness and economic growth through high-skilled immigration reform and investments in...

Posted by Rane Johnson-Stempson Education & Scholarly Communication Principal Research Director, Microsoft Research Connections Here’s a sobering fact: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that, by 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States and, at...

Editor’s Note: The following post from Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs Fred Humphries was originally published on the Computer Science Education Week Blog on Dec. 11. Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft The United States is facing...

Posted by Anthony Salcito Vice President of Worldwide Education, Microsoft One of the profound privileges of my job is that, every year around this same time, we host the Partners in Learning Global forum – this is the Olympics of innovative education. All of the participants (nearly 500 educators...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, 20 organizations issued a letter in support of Microsoft’s new National Talent Strategy , which outlines ideas for securing U.S. competitiveness and economic growth through citizenship efforts and strategy related to STEM education...

Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft All the signs are pointing toward a growing consensus – high-skilled immigration is critical to our nation’s economic recovery. Now is the time to act on high-skilled immigration reform to further drive this recovery...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft November marks the end of a very long election season. It also marks the start of a new beginning. After all the campaigning and the political ads, November provides all of us a time to come...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Yesterday, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith was the featured keynote speaker at the Washington Council on International Trade Conference (WCIT) luncheon in Seattle. The conference, which was attended...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Yesterday, Brad Smith, Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft spoke at the University of Washington’s Distinguished Lecture Series about the significant role Computer Science is playing in shaping the future...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a monthly series from Microsoft called “The View from Washington State”. The View from Washington State will provide insight and commentary on topics and trends of importance to technology, education, corporate citizenship and public policy in Washington...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a monthly series from Microsoft’s Citizenship team that appears on the second Wednesday of every month. Pulse on Citizenship provides insight and commentary on topics and trends in corporate citizenship. Posted by Lori Harnick General Manager, Citizenship...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues In this edition of The Week in Tech Policy, we have stories on the continuing debates around cybersecurity, warrantless tracking of Americans’ mobile devices and more. Debate on cybersecurity continues. Gen. Keith Alexander, the head...

Posted by Anthony Salcito Vice President, Worldwide Education, Microsoft Tomorrow, our partner UNESCO celebrates World Teachers Day , when thousands of communities around the globe honor the women and men who selflessly (and for little material reward) hold our collective future in their hands. It’s...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, in front of 2,000 students and teachers at Federal Way High School in Washington state, Microsoft General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith joined Free The Children founder Craig Kielburger...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues In this edition of The Week in Tech Policy, we have stories on California banning employers and universities from asking for Facebook and social media information from employees and students, new Internet radio legislation and a new privacy bill...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Yesterday, Microsoft released a white paper highlighting a key challenge facing the U.S. economy – the critical and growing shortage of skilled workers able to fill the new high-skilled jobs that are being created. The white paper outlines...