The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Change
Early Steps to School Success, Save the Children US Programs photo: Rick D’Elia “I saw crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children alike.” — President Barack Obama, 2008 Change is painful. Change takes time. Change is trial and error, but isn’t change ultimately brought about by leadership which has the ability to rally all the policy makers around the...
The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….
Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Liebe der Danae opening Bard Music Festival July 29 photo courtesy of Bard College. If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Bard Summerscape 2011. That strain again Maestro, it had a dying fall. It came o’er my ear like the sweet sound of...
The Global Search for Education: New Zealand is Ready!
Prime Minister John Key and young New Zealanders celebrate 100 Days to Go to Rugby World Cup 2011. Photo courtesy of RWCNZ 2011. New Zealand’s “Stadium of Four Million” is ready to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup on September 9. In its world cup bid for the championship, this unique multi-cultural nation (with the most highly ranked rugby team in the world) promised to provide optimum world class rugby...
The Global Search for Education: The Future of Jobs?
Guangzhou, China education mega center Recession. Economic Crisis. Increasing World Competition. For Finland (The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Finland), the successful way forward in this situation was through education reform. The impact of education on individual and national prosperity has long been debated by politicians, policy advisors, business consultants and academics. However, Professor Hugh Lauder...
The Global Search for Education: Teacher Be Good
Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in Bad Teacher courtesy of Sony Pictures. Bad Teacher is a new comedy starring Cameron Diaz as a totally inappropriate teacher, Elizabeth Halsey. As the movie begins, Elizabeth is not excited about the first day of school. Nor is she interested in putting her students first. Truthfully, Elizabeth’s primary focus is finding a guy who’s going to take care of her. To find out whether...
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