Around the World in 30 Days: March 2017
C. M. Rubin’s Monthly Global Education Report In her interview with CMRubinWorld this month, Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, speaks about the troubling trends in world politics: “We have seen strong anti-globalization sentiment worldwide,” and how to address them: “Globalization has exposed students to a far greater range of ideas, cultures, languages, places and ideologies than ever before. Knowing how to...
The Global Search for Education: Global Millennials on Relationships, Marriage, Modern Family – What’s Normal?
“Relationships are becoming increasingly self-defining; there has been an explosion in the language used to describe them. People are taking a more active role in the formation of language, whether it be creating the right word for their relationship, or their gender,” writes Marguerite Ohan. The face of the family has changed significantly during the past two generations. According to OECD research, all populations are ageing, there...
The Global Search for Education: Global Teacher Bloggers on Why We Need Character Education Now More Than Ever
“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society,” Theodore Roosevelt once said. In his book, Four Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners need to Succeed, Author Charles Fadel notes the three commonly cited reasons for character education are: “to build a foundation for life-long learning, to support successful relationships at home and in your community, and to develop the personal values and...
The Global Search for Education: Job market demands require a new vision for assessment – Part 2
“The key for businesses is to explain their needs crisply, as they often do in the US with community colleges – tailoring curricula to specific tasks and knowledge areas. It gets a lot more complicated when the student needs to learn higher-order thinking skills such as creativity, collaboration, etc., and character qualities such as ethics and leadership.” — Charles Fadel Employers’ complaints that new college graduates aren’t...
The Global Search for Education: Meet the Ministers – From Australia – Julia Gillard
“It is not simply enough to pour money into our schools: that money must be demonstrably and successfully put to improving education, including literacy and numeracy standards.” — Julia Gillard Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia on June 24, 2010 and served in that office until June 27, 2013. As Prime Minister and in her previous role as Deputy Prime Minister, Gillard was...
The Global Search for Education: A New Model for Student Assessment – Part 1
“It’s easier to create a statistically valid test for content or for content-related mental processes, whereas it is difficult to measure something like critical thinking, and very difficult to measure something like courage. In short, there is too much focus on Knowledge.” — Charles Fadel Charles Fadel believes there are flaws with the assessment system currently predominant in the United States. “Assessment boils down to evidence of...
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