The Global Search for Education: Is Your Child an Innovator?
“There is no competitive advantage today to knowing more than the person sitting next to you.” — Tony Wagner “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” — President Barack Obama, January 25, 2011 Welcome to the Innovation Age. Today’s world will reward the most innovative young people. World leaders, business executives, educators, and policy makers have...
The Global Search for Education: Where Is the Next Martha Graham?
“Dance education cannot just be about learning a system of physical moves. It has to include ways to practice thinking, improvising, risk taking, using your imagination” — Janet Eilber How important is dance to life? How important is oxygen to life? In American culture today, Martha Graham’s legacy serves as a constant reminder of the importance of dance in our lives. Graham, who died in 1991,...
The Global Search for Education: The Arts Face to Face
“In the Finnish public education system we already have a music, visual arts, and crafts education that is compulsory for all students.” – Dr. Eija Kauppinen The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, a member driven association of arts education entities, held its 2012 Face to Face conference last week. Presentations were made on best arts practices in both domestic and international communities, which...
Alice in Italy
The Mart: the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto Alice In Wonderland is the first exhibition to comprehensively focus on Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice” books and their enormous influence on the world of visual arts from the first publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 to the present day. From the 25th of February to the 3rd of June 2012, the visual extravaganza...
The Global Search for Education: A Life of Learning
“The evidence is strong from the UK that those members of society who have had a positive experience of post-compulsory education live healthier, happier and more democratically tolerant lives.”— Sir David Watson Professor Sir David Watson (MA University of Cambridge, PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Higher Education and Principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, England. Sir...
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