Around the World in 30 Days – June 2019
C.M. Rubin’s Global Education Report UNOi, based in Mexico, wants to raise the quality of education in Latin America. In 2010, Grupo Santillana had a “dream” to create a 21st century learning model that could create positive change. Featured in The Global Search for Education this month is Karime Pulido Ramzahuer, Director of Pedagogical Development at UNOi. Karime says their goal was to develop a learning model which allowed schools...
The Global Search for Education: Is Virtual Reality the Ultimate Empathy Machine for Racism?
“We believe that achieving racial justice requires that we all understand racism and that this is best done through visceral experiences rather than intellectual exercises.” – Dr. Courtney Cogburn Since the 1990s, Virtual Reality projects have been aimed at cultivating empathy for people with serious health conditions. Recently, Stanford University conducted an immersive technology study that discovered that people...
The Global Search for Education: Celebrating Alice – Listen to the Real Alice…
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves and President Nicholas Murray Butler Columbia University at the 1932 Centenary Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s birth When you hear the voice of the Real Alice In Wonderland – Alice Pleasance Hargreaves – extending her thanks to President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University at the spectacular centenary celebrations held in the old Columbia gymnasium on May 4, 1932, you will...
The Global Search for Education: A Global Education for All
“Education that is academically rigorous, deliberately multi-cultural, and concerned with developing personal values that include a commitment to community service is an invaluable resource for any and all of us.” — George Rupp In an inter-connected global world, every child should have the opportunity to have a high quality international education. Current and future generations will be better prepared if they are...
The Global Search for Education: Being Global – An International Pre-Graduate Program
“We want students to be well informed and prepared before they apply to their top choice graduate schools.” — Tom Rock Economies around the world continue to promote intercultural exchanges and study abroad. “Students mobility is at the highest level that I have ever seen it,” comments Tom Rock, Associate Provost for Enrollment Services at Teachers College, Columbia University. The US has always been...
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