The Global Search for Education: Feel, Imagine, Do, Share!
“Our Riverside school uses a curriculum that we call ‘Humane’, and the 5 E’s that shape our curriculum are Empathy, Ethics, Excellence, Elevation and Evolution” – Kiran Bir Sethi Children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Since 2009, Design for Change, based in India, has focused on creating learning environments that balance academic programs with character development. Their program focuses...
Around the World in 30 Days: March 2019
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Professor Anant Agarwal, Founder and CEO of edX, won the Yidan prize for Education Development. Agarwal leads edX, an online learning destination created by Harvard and MIT scientists with the goal of providing high quality education at scale. The first edX course attracted 155,000 students from 162 countries. Today, the platform offers over 2000 online courses from more than 150 education...
The Global Search for Education: How to Expand High-Quality Learning Access for All Students
“The jobs of the future will require a hybrid set of skills from a variety of subject areas that will change several times over during our careers, which will include a mix of hard skills and soft skills.” – Anant Agarwal The second Yidan Prize Summit took place in Hong Kong on December 10, 2018. Founded by Dr. Charles Chen Yidan, the prize seeks to give recognition to individuals whose work makes profound...
Around the World in 30 Days – February 2019
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Professor Larry V. Hedges has dedicated his professional life to the cause of applying rigorous scientific methods to develop a “culture of evidence in education” for those who need it, be they teachers, policy makers or even parents. He is the Yidan Prize for Education Research Laureate 2018. Founded in 2016 by Charles Chen Yidan (a core founder of Tencent), the prize presents two awards each...
The Global Search for Education: Creating a Culture of Evidence for Future Learning
“I imagine that in 50 years, we will live in a world where essentially every student will perform as well as the very best students do today.” – Larry Hedges Larry Hedges says he is “deeply humbled” by receiving the Yidan Prize for Educational Research. He hopes this prestigious award will bring attention to “the importance of rigorous research as the path to improving education worldwide.” Hedges has...
The Global Search for Education: Defying Tradition – Learning with Nooks
“Why should there be only one teacher in class? Why not everyone teach and learn?”- Abhijit Sinha India’s rural schools struggle with high rates of teacher absences and student dropouts. How do you educate youth without sufficient government funding, resources and teachers? Abhijit Sinha believes fixing the problem is about defying tradition and instead allowing youth to design their own education using the internet and...
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