How Will We Read: In Schools?
How must the role of the school library and the school librarian evolve in the 21st century school? Our time is an information age. There are many unique challenges we face related to information such as accuracy, ownership, accessibility and privacy. Lifestyles are more hectic than ever, which means we feel the need to process information faster. It seems more often than ever we hear concerns about the lack of media...
The Global Search for Education: Knowledge
“Schooling is a universal right. It is about the right of all young peopleto have access to ‘powerful knowledge’… ” — Michael Young Fueled by international test scores which indicate that the UK is lagging behind other nations in education, the British education debate has focused on a number of issues. These include the nature of standardized exams and the weakness of the academic core...
The Global Search for Education: More From India
“The challenges India faces are also an opportunity to move away from the two centuries oldmodel of schooling.” Photo courtesy of Murali Srinivasan. Is there a future for a US – India partnership in education? In his remarks at the recent Brookings Institute conference in Washington, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns commented, “We are counting on India’s rise, not just as an economic...
The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Finland
Finnish teachers talk with Harvard professor Tony Wagner in The Finland Phenomenon “The Finns had a crisis,” life-long educator, best-selling author, and Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains as we discuss his new film, The Finland Phenomenon, made with acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Bob Compton. “Their economy was failing. Their education system was poor. They knew that to grow their economy, they had to...
The Global Search for Education: Can You Pass the Global Standardized Test?
In approximately six weeks’ time, policy makers, administrators, researchers and educators will meet at the OECD PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) conference in Tokyo to study the educational strategies of countries which excel in the global standardized test. Many of these strategies will be previewed over the next few weeks in The Global Search for Education. The performance of U.S. students in the 2009 PISA...
The Global Search for Education: The Way Out of Poverty
“We have to learn from our past because we must not forget and because we must be better.” So speaks the powerful voice of 84-year-old Kenyan, Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, describing his unrelenting determination to get an education in a deeply moving new film by director Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) called The First Grader (U.S. release date: May 13, 2011). The film, a triumph of education, is based on...
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