The Global Search for Education: A View From Germany
May31

The Global Search for Education: A View From Germany

 “Early language skills have to be developed.  This is something that the German government is trying to intensify at the moment.” — Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schneider  Fighting the war on poverty with high quality early childhood education programs is an issue discussed and supported by numerous contributors to The Global Search For Education series.  Researchers, educators and policy makers have argued that...

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The Global Search for Education: The 20%
Nov08

The Global Search for Education: The 20%

 “The achievement gap is not created by schools. The achievement gap begins before the children are born.” — Diane Ravitch   photo courtesy of Rick D’Elia, Save the Children U.S. Programs.  Even with food stamps, poor people are still poor. The OECD lists the U.S. as being one of the five top OECD nations with the highest child poverty rate. The impact of poverty is significant in the outcomes of children...

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How Will We Read: In Schools?
Nov03

How Will We Read: In Schools?

  How must the role of the school library and the school librarian evolve in the 21st century school? Our time is an information age.  There are many unique challenges we face related to information such as accuracy, ownership, accessibility and privacy.  Lifestyles are more hectic than ever, which means we feel the need to process information faster. It seems more often than ever we hear concerns about the lack of media...

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The Global Search for Education: Knowledge
Oct12

The Global Search for Education: Knowledge

 “Schooling is a universal right.  It is about the right of all young peopleto have access to ‘powerful knowledge’… ” — Michael Young  Fueled by international test scores which indicate that the UK is lagging behind other nations in education, the British education debate has focused on a number of issues.  These include the nature of standardized exams and the weakness of the academic core...

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The Global Search for Education: More From India
Oct04

The Global Search for Education: More From India

 “The challenges India faces are also an opportunity to move away from the two centuries oldmodel of schooling.”   Photo courtesy of  Murali Srinivasan.  Is there a future for a US – India partnership in education? In his remarks at the recent Brookings Institute conference in Washington, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns commented, “We are counting on India’s rise, not just as an economic...

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The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Finland
Jun01

The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Finland

 Finnish teachers talk with Harvard professor Tony Wagner in The Finland Phenomenon “The Finns had a crisis,” life-long educator, best-selling author, and Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains as we discuss his new film, The Finland Phenomenon, made with acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Bob Compton. “Their economy was failing. Their education system was poor. They knew that to grow their economy, they had to...

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