The Global Search for Education: More Materials for the Arts
“Every day is Earth Day.” — Harriet Taub Materials for the Arts is one of those organizations you look at and say to yourself – it’s so obvious – collect surplus materials from businesses and individuals and redistribute them to nonprofits with ongoing arts programming and schools – why doesn’t every community have a recycling program like this one? Harriet Taub, Executive Director...
The Global Search for Education: Is this the Age of the Arts?
“BAM Education’s dream is that anyone, anywhere in the world would be able to experience what happens on BAM’s stages, especially young audiences, at any time.” — John Tighe Arts education is making a difference in improving struggling schools by increasing student engagement and positively changing young lives in countries all over the world. Additionally, in an age where anyone can access the...
Around the World in 30 Days – May 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report In May, I continued my conversations with thought leaders from China to New York who sketched out for me the conflicting overlaps between creativity, innovation, reform, and testing, and shared their efforts to create coalescence between them. Meanwhile, my Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers contributed some much-needed tips on one of the hottest topics for this time of the school calendar year,...
The Global Search for Education: Education and Economy
“When jobs are changing rapidly, accumulating knowledge matters less, and success becomes increasingly about ways of thinking – creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving and judgment; about ways of working – collaboration and teamwork; about tools for working, including the capacity to recognize and exploit the potential of new technologies; and about the social and emotional skills that help us live and work...
The Global Search for Education: Shepherd Sound
“Musicians are all human, that is, we all have issues and things we want to improve but we also have the same goal, and that is to be the best we can be at what we do.”- Niccolo Muti World-renowned violinist, Cho-Liang Lin, Professor of Violin at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, urges all young musicians “to get up in front of people and perform.” And The Shepherd School Orchestra did –...
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