The Global Search for Education: On the Road to 2030 Our Planet Made a Plan
“The SDGs are a shared vision of humanity – they are the missing (vision) piece of our globalisation puzzle!” — Thomas Gass In September 2015, 193 countries signed up to support the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals for our planet and the people that live on it. The all-encompassing plan included promises to end poverty, feed everyone, create stability and peace, provide quality education and protect the future of our world. Every...
The Global Search for Education: Dear Parents – A Conversation with Tracey Burns
“Children from non-traditional families, for example – single parent, multi-racial, same sex parents, have the right to see their family structure acknowledged and respected.” — Tracey Burns The institution of marriage itself is changing, and Tracey Burns at the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) believes “schools need to take these changes into account.” There are fewer marriages and the divorce rate is...
The Global Search for Education: A New Look at Early Childhood Education Around the World
“When children are born, they don’t know any concept of race, ethnicity or citizenship. These are social constructs.” — Andreas Schleicher “When children are born, they don’t know any concept of race, ethnicity or citizenship. These are social constructs,” says Andreas Schleicher, Director, Directorate for Education and Skills for the OECD in Paris. Early childhood education and care is the first opportunity to introduce children to...
The Global Search for Education: Top Global Teacher Bloggers – What are the best examples you have seen of teachers closing the gender gap in education?
The OECD’s PISA report, The ABC of Gender Equality in Education, featured in The Global Search for Education: Education and Gender, illustrated that the gender gap cuts both ways – boys’ and girls’ attitudes to learning, their behavior in school and their self-confidence impacted their abilities as students. Today in The Global Search for Education, our Top Global Teacher Bloggers will share their answer to...
Around the World in 30 Days – December 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Has there ever been a time when an education framework for 21st century competencies was more important? What should world citizens learn in an age of Google, Robots, Climate Change, Increased Migration, Radicalism and Inter-connected Economies? Our voices in The Global Search for Education this month – Dr. Siva Kumari, Dr. Denise Pope, Rebecca Ingram, Alexa Joyce, Francesca Borgonovi,...
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