The Global Search for Education: How They Decide Who Gets In
“Many assumed that applicants from China, in particular, would have had a lot of formal test preparation, given the country’s long history of the civil service examination and the powerful role of the gao kao for admissions today. As a result, they expected higher scores.” — Julie Posselt How do the admissions decision makers in U.S. Higher Education institutions decide which international graduate students...
The Global Search for Education: If You Teach Them They Will Grow
“The radical success of incarcerated Americans in college education is symbolic. It should move leaders in education to rethink the way we look at college admission and rethink the way we present the things we say we value.” — Max Kenner Max Kenner believes that if you were to show the success rates of the graduates from the Bard Prison Initiative to experts in the social sciences, they would tell you the results...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professional Ethicists – On Becoming a Consummate Professional – Part 3
“In speaking of the achievement of excellence as workers and citizens, we refer to the three E’s: Excellence, Engagement, and Ethics.” — Howard Gardner In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professional Ethicists – Is Education a Profession? – Part 2
“We should try to raise consciousness about a teaching corps that is highly professionalized.” — Howard Gardner In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from human experts? What can be done to preserve...
The Global Search for Education: Latin America is Online
“Over 35 percent of Latin American companies say that an inadequately trained workforce is their primary impediment to expansion, versus just 22 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa and 17 percent in South Asia.” — Gabriel Sanchez Zinny Gabriel Sanchez Zinny is focused on education and the improvement of educational quality to fit a 21st century economy. Zinny is the founder and president of Kuepa.com, a blended learning...
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