Broadcasting series moderated by marvin kalb. We have dr. Francis collins, director of the National Institute of health. We are pleased to accept questions from our audience, especially our journalists tuning in. I will ask as many as time permits. Headliners p ress. Org. Medicalur Nations Research agency. It is the largest public funder of Biomedical Research in the world, investing more than 32 billion a world to enhance life and reduce illness and disability. Nih comprises different components each with its own Research Agenda often focusing on particular diseases or body systems. Receive their funding directly from congress. The director of the Central Office is responsible for setting policy and planning, managing, and coordinating programs and activities of all the nih components. In 2009, dr. Francis collins was appointed by former president barack obama to serve as the 16th director of nih and he was selected by President Trump to continue in that position in the current admini
A reaction that could further destabilize the global economy. And huawei vows to continue its campaign against u. S. Restrictions on tech. We will be hearing from the security chief a little bit later on this hour. Shery lets get you started with a quick check and how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures are down a 10th of 1 . We saw a fade in u. S. Stocks, giving up their gains after President Trump announced the executive order targeting social Media Companies. This coming at a time when u. S. China trade tensions continue to rise. We are seeing tensions over hong kong. The s p 500 fell for the first time in four days, and recent out performers, like bank and energy stocks, fell 4. 6 . Twitter falling almost 5 . We did get encouraging news with betterthanexpected economic data. Continuing jobless claims and capital goods orders providing some support. It is looking like we are shaping up to be a mixed start to trading here in asia. We are seeing for japanese futures, a little chang
If you have resources in your structures why not open those up a little more freely. If we have a learning opportunity where learners build a 3d printer from scratch they are going through the entire process of putting together. Only ten are filled. Why not throw out the additional five Community Partners and bring them in, Multigenerational Community members running sidebyside so providing content, why not open the facility for shared resources, whether it is the cnc machines or laser engravers, whatever it may be, why not put structures in place where local Community Members, and those are 3 pieces of the downtown campus. The new campus we opened up which we have gone beyond the date of manufacture for learning to customizing learning and Community Revitalization leveraging Community Members for internships, mentoring and bringing those Community Members to connect. Corneal Regional Charter School and a quick snapshot. [applause] my name is nicole, the cofounder and ceo of thrive Pub
But helping us find ways to measure them. I applaud all the innovation around this table and i just hope we can all help to bring some of these innovators that are in our Public Education system back into education as the new leaders of the next century. Thank you very much for that, michael, and thanks for the conversation. We will take a short break now and will start again at 10 45. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all right. Were going to get started to get and keep us on track. So we are moving into the next and final topic of customizing learning, and again we with the presenters we are excited to hear from. First of will be the ceo of Summit Learning, diane tavenner. And then the executive directod principal of cornville regional Charter Schools travis works and finally ceo of thrive Charter Schools, nicole assisi. Good morning. Its good to be here. I have the good honor of leading summit Public Schools, and we have what i i discovered this summer i
Good morning. Good to be here. I have the good honor of leading summit Public Schools, and we have what i discovered this summer is a shared vision for the outcomes that we expect to deliver for our students. I had the good fortune this summer of, were working with about 3000 educators across the country, and like i to spend time and whole bunch of cities and towns and conversation and get her discussions with teachers and superintendents and principals and parents and University President s and businesspeople, and we just talked about our vision for education. And in a world that can sometimes feel very divided i was inspired by how much we actually had in common. And what it really came down to is at the end of the day we all want our children to leave our system equipped to lead a good life and really the elements of a good life are to engage in purposeful work on a daily basis, to be a part of a community to have meaningful relationships, to be able to have the Financial Security t