The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals – Part 1
“You have to invest in the whole system.” — Randi Weingarten. Photo courtesy of the American Federation of Teachers. Here’s a powerful challenge to the world of education: Improve the profession of teaching. If you believe that the future of learning depends on the future of teaching, Andy Hargreaves’ and Michael Fullan’s latest collaboration, Professional Capital, proposes an action plan...
The Global Search for Education: Racing to the Top at Four
“We believe that tutoring at such a young age should be done by the parents, not with a hired tutor.”— Michael McCurdy Put down your teddy bear! It’s time to take your standardized test. Does it matter that racing to the top threatens to push pre-schoolers into an academic environment too early? Michael McCurdy, the Co-Founder and CEO of TestingMom.com (a children’s tutoring service for...
Alice, Is This Cool?
“Johnny Depp has made it cool to like Alice,” was Miss Alice Llandudno Nicol Thompson’s answer to my question — Why do children today still love Alice in Wonderland? With Johnny Depp’s 3-D visual spectacle of a movie currently standing at a worldwide gross of $1,024,299,904, I suspect he made Alice in Wonderland very cool for a lot of Disney executives too. But what about serious Carroll fans? ...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Innovation
“We reinvented the notion of a film festival and we were disruptive mainly out of necessity.” — Craig Hatkoff “Educate to Innovate,” President Obama’s campaign for excellence in science, technology, engineering & math, is a call to action that our education system embrace a specific type of orientation. Innovation requires educators to think about a 21st century education incorporating...
Alice — Meet Alice
“Without Alice there would be no Wonderland.” — Ian Turner “Magic, beauty, color, amusement, character, intrigue, questions, excitement, puzzlement, amazement, fear, suspense, fun and a happy ending” are the reasons why Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is still a classic today, according to Ian Turner, celebrity host of Llandudno, Wales, Alice Day on May 4, 2012. And Turner’s favorite...
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