The Global Search for Education: An Education in Africa
“When I visited a local village, what everyone told me — the chiefs, the parents, the children — was that girls weren’t in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.” — Ann Cotton Educating girls is a very powerful tool for ending global poverty. Ann Cotton is the Founder and President of Camfed, a world renowned non-profit organization...
The Global Search for Education: Can You Hear the Thunder?
Creativity World Forum Oklahoma 2015 – All our Futures: Ideas That Matter We can hear the thunder, Oklahoma City! At your resounding forum last weekend, your city illustrated loud and clear that creativity is alive. It is sweeping down the plains, an insuppressible force of nature inspiring, uniting, renewing, committing us once again in our belief in Picasso’s thesis that “Every child is born an artist. The problem...
The Global Search for Education: United States and Finland – Why are they so great?
“American scholars and their writings, like Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, have been influential in building the much-admired school system in Finland.” — Pasi Sahlberg A little over 4 decades ago, Finland transformed its education system as part of the country’s economic recovery plan. Finnish students had become the best young readers by the time the 2000 Program for International...
The Global Search for Education: Education and Gender
“Even high-achieving girls are less confident in their abilities in mathematics and science, and more anxious towards mathematics. As such, they are less apt to want to pursue further education in these subjects or to pursue a career in mathematics or science-related fields.” — Francesca Borgonovi/Marilyn Achiron PISA’s just published report – The ABC of Gender Equality in Education: Aptitude, Behaviour,...
Around the World in 30 Days – January 2015
C. M. Rubin’s global education report from India, England, Finland and Europe In January, I talked with world leaders from India, England, Finland and Europe about their goals to improve education. Each had a distinct project and clear opinions about what was the most important facet of education to focus on: from how to make education accessible to everyone, to how to make students into stronger candidates for jobs in the...
The Global Search for Education: Education is My Right – India
“A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.” — Shaheen Mistri “Seva,” the Hindi word for “service,” is one of Teach for India’s...
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