The Global Search for Education: New Study – Social and Emotional Learning
“The Second Step Program in the United States introduces age-appropriate weekly lessons for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. They include activities designed to foster empathy, emotional coping and problem solving as well as to prevent bullying and substance abuse.” — Koji Miyamoto The best educational institutions in the world recognize that development of the whole child instead of focus mainly on the...
The Global Search for Education: Where are the US Jobs?
“NY and CA are not necessarily the best place for college graduates to look for a job. While these states offer many job opportunities to college graduates, they also have a large number of college-educated workers, which results in intense competition for these jobs.” — Tony Carnevale A new report, “State Online College Job Market: Ranking the States,” indicates that Massachusetts, Delaware, and...
The Global Search for Education: A World of Oppi-tunities!
The Oppi Festival pops up at Leman Manhattan School in NYC on May 15 and 16. When Quincy Jones was chosen to produce “We Are The World” in 1985, the idea was that it would be a collective effort of the music community donating its time and talents to make a difference for others in crisis. Who can forget the story about the world’s biggest recording stars being told to “check your egos at the door”...
The Global Search for Education: Can You Hear the Thunder?
Creativity World Forum Oklahoma 2015 – All our Futures: Ideas That Matter We can hear the thunder, Oklahoma City! At your resounding forum last weekend, your city illustrated loud and clear that creativity is alive. It is sweeping down the plains, an insuppressible force of nature inspiring, uniting, renewing, committing us once again in our belief in Picasso’s thesis that “Every child is born an artist. The problem...
The Global Search for Education: Being Global – A Global Competence Certificate
“Education is affected by the same trends we see in business, government and our day-to-day lives: rapid technological advances, increasing interconnectivity, higher levels of diversity, and greater levels of uncertainty in how to handle complex problems. As these trends increase, there is more pressure for the education sector to respond at all levels – this includes a recognition that we must engage with the world in...
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