The Global Search for Education: From Local to Global
“For this back-to-school season, we are focusing on making communication, collaboration, resource sharing and discovery even simpler and more relevant at a local, regional and global level.” — Manish Kothari Who hasn’t heard of Edmodo, aka the “Facebook for schools” that boasts over 65 million users in 370,000 schools around the world; where teachers and learners experience classrooms without...
The Global Search for Education: Living Happy
“Relationships set us apart from Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence computers. No relations, no humanity, no life, no meaning.” — Sir Anthony Seldon Who among us feels happy? Who among us would like to be happier? Who is responsible for us feeling happy or not? Who believes that we have it in our power to be unbelievably happy? These are all questions Sir Anthony Seldon might ask of the audience in one of his...
Around the World in 30 Days – June 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world, and for those of us passionate about the role of education, events this month were stern reminders of why our work is important. On June 12, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history took place in a gay night club in Orlando, Florida when American-born Omar Mateen, claiming his allegiance to ISIS, murdered 50 young people in...
The Global Search for Education: Top Global Teacher Bloggers – How do we inspire the best and the brightest to become educators?
The role of teachers is paramount to raising educational standards around the globe. In countries such as Finland, Singapore and South Korea, teachers are recruited from the most qualified graduates, are highly trained, respected and paid well. But that’s not the case in every country. According to Mckinsey’s “Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching”, in the...
The Global Search for Education: Remembering Jerome Bruner
“I have a kaleidoscope of memories of Jerry,” writes Howard Gardner, “sitting with a group of students and colleagues, raising questions in a broader way than most of us would, then asking us to connect the dots, and then offering his own connections, NOT in a way of closing the conversation, but rather encouraging us to stretch our minds, our emotions, our passions; as my colleague Steve Pinker reminded me, making...
The Global Search for Education: If You Teach Them They Will Grow
“The radical success of incarcerated Americans in college education is symbolic. It should move leaders in education to rethink the way we look at college admission and rethink the way we present the things we say we value.” — Max Kenner Max Kenner believes that if you were to show the success rates of the graduates from the Bard Prison Initiative to experts in the social sciences, they would tell you the results...
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