Attitude
Aug12

Attitude

 Jesse Freeborn on Top of the World for Childreach International  “Just before we reached Uhuru Peak on Kilimanjaro, my brain was pounding so badly it felt as if it was going to explode through my ears. I started throwing up black vomit and I got diarrhea at the same time.  I was physically a mess. I knew I was close to the goal though. I knew I had to think positive.  I knew if I could just hang in there a little longer, I...

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The Global Search for Education: The Technology Connection
Aug09

The Global Search for Education: The Technology Connection

 Will Apple’s iPad 2 change the way we watch a book or appreciate nature? photo courtesy of Susan Leslie. “If you asked a parent they might call it intuitive. If you asked a musician they might call it inspiring. To a doctor it’s groundbreaking. To a CEO it’s powerful. To a teacher it’s the future. If you asked a child, she might call it magic.” …And if you asked the producers of the Apple...

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The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….
Jul26

The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….

 Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Liebe der Danae opening Bard Music Festival July 29 photo courtesy of Bard College.  If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Bard Summerscape 2011. That strain again Maestro, it had a dying fall. It came o’er my ear like the sweet sound of...

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The Global Search for Education: New Zealand is Ready!
Jul19

The Global Search for Education: New Zealand is Ready!

 Prime Minister John Key and young New Zealanders celebrate 100 Days to Go to Rugby World Cup 2011.  Photo courtesy of RWCNZ 2011.  New Zealand’s “Stadium of Four Million” is ready to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup on September 9. In its world cup bid for the championship, this unique multi-cultural nation (with the most highly ranked rugby team in the world) promised to provide optimum world class rugby...

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The Global Search for Education: A View from Norway
Jul12

The Global Search for Education: A View from Norway

 Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland  Why have I never been to Norway, I wonder as I view the breathtaking images of this amazing country on Google search. I email my close friend, Norwegian expert and talented architect, Maddy Vigeland, and ask her to share with me a Norwegian view for my new education post. “A few things come to mind,” Maddy emails back. “In addition to skiing, the fjords — miles and...

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