Around the World in 30 Days: August 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report What would you do if you were US Education Secretary? What Curriculum makes education relevant in a 21st Century world? What do Millennials around the world think about Immigration? What do our Top Global Teachers do to promote integration in their increasingly diverse classrooms? Those are the questions we were most curious about this month. Some time early next year a new President may...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine Secretary Fisher
“Amidst debates about college access and affordability, we think the question of employer needs should sit at the core of higher education conversations. Without answering it, we risk pumping more and more students through a costly system that is not aligned in reliable ways to the job market.” — Julia Freeland Fisher What will be the legacy of Race to the Top and Barack Obama’s other education initiatives?...
Around the World in 30 Days: July 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report As the United States prepares to elect a new President this November, putting every student on a path towards a successful future should be the most important focus for discussion and debate among candidates as well as all voters. With that in mind, this month we asked Dr. Andy Hargreaves to kick off our Education Debate series 2016. Manish Kothari, Edmodo’s General Manager of...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine Secretary Hargreaves
“What the US now needs is a learning Secretary who promotes challenging and joyful learning for all students, uplifting and impactful learning for education professionals, and relentless learning among state systems from one another and from other systems across the world to become more innovative and effective.” — Andy Hargreaves What will be the legacy of Race to the Top and Barack Obama’s other education...
The Global Search for Education: China – To Follow Or Not To Follow?
“Schooling and the economy are less intimately connected than people realize. A nation’s education system grows out of its larger culture; graft a foreign system onto a different culture and the plant will never flourish.” — Gene Glass Author Yong Zhao has plenty to say about the dangerous consequences of China’s educational authoritarianism and he has begun to convince some very important leaders of global...
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