Around the World in 30 Days – February 2015
C. M. Rubin’s global education report In February, I continued my conversations on global education with Lord Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Australia’s Geoff Masters (CEO of Australian Council for Educational Research) and Susan Mann (CEO of Education Services Australia). I learned further about how technology is entering the classroom and how this is helping to broaden cross-cultural perspectives in education. Some of my...
The Global Search for Education: How to Improve – From Australia
“Highly effective schools in Australia are not different from highly effective schools anywhere. They have a strong focus on continual improvement, often with explicit school-wide goals for improving current school practices and levels of student achievement.” — Geoff Masters In his paper, “Is School Reform Working?”, Professor Geoff Masters (Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board, Australian...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Special Education
“Without an arts base, many of our students would not be able to access learning.” — Robert Newall, Principal, Port Phillip Specialist School There are over 400 special schools in Australia, educating around 20 percent of the 150,000 students with special educational needs or a disability who are enrolled in schools nationally. The other 80 percent are enrolled in mainstream schools. A new book published by...
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