The Global Search for Education: WHAT is “Four-Dimensional” Education?
Aug03

The Global Search for Education: WHAT is “Four-Dimensional” Education?

“Our framework is a result of the analysis and synthesis of research on learning sciences, views from futurists and economists, standards around the world, and needs of employers and societies — all organized to be maximally comprehensive, compact, appropriate, and globally relevant.” — Charles Fadel According to Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) founder Charles Fadel, education is “falling behind its...

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The Global Search for Education: Help Failing Students Improve
Feb10

The Global Search for Education: Help Failing Students Improve

“All countries can improve their students’ performance, given the right policies and the will to implement them.”  —  Andreas Schleicher “Low Performing Students: Why They Fail and How to Help Them Succeed” is a new analysis of previously published PISA data which discusses the factors affecting students’ low performance on PISA together with recommendations for what countries can do to help...

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The Global Search for Education: Trends
Jan18

The Global Search for Education: Trends

“There is a lot of pressure placed on education to act as one of the major levers to reduce inequality, but it cannot act alone.”  — Tracey Burns Trends Shaping Education 2016 is a new and updated OECD work which looks at major social, demographic, economic and technological trends affecting the future of education. The first edition of the book was published in 2008 and two subsequent editions were published in 2010...

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The Global Search for Education: Learning for a New World
Oct23

The Global Search for Education: Learning for a New World

“We wanted to look at horizontal collaborative relationships, not just vertical hierarchies. Indeed, in the 21st century a great deal of the relevant learning does not take place in schools at all.” — David Istance A new OECD report, Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning System, shows how to take schools, classroom, teachers, and students out of their default state of seclusion and into the expanding...

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Around the World in 30 Days – September 2015
Sep29

Around the World in 30 Days – September 2015

C. M. Rubin’s global education report People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership…. “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” has set a plan of action in these 5 important areas. What role can education play? Can we use the world’s classrooms to educate and develop the competencies and attitudes required to achieve the new UN Agenda? I spoke about this with EFF14 debate...

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