La recherche globale pour l'éducation: leader du changement
“The way to improve the quality of teaching is through teamwork in the schools, and then surround it with better teacher pre-service, better attraction of the profession, and better professional development.” — Michael Fullan Michael Fullan has been working to identify the right drivers for whole system education reform. His paper, “Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform,” has...
La recherche globale pour l'éducation: More From India
“The challenges India faces are also an opportunity to move away from the two centuries oldmodel of schooling.” Photo courtesy of Murali Srinivasan. Is there a future for a US – India partnership in education? In his remarks at the recent Brookings Institute conference in Washington, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns commented, “We are counting on India’s rise, not just as an economic...
Système d'éducation Bad — Quel est le coût réel?
Investment in education is investment in people and in a nation’s future. And it is also about money! “Le coût pour les individus et la société des jeunes qui quittent l'école sans qualification ne cesse d'augmenter,” stated OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría in connection with the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance report. Selon ce rapport, the global economic crisis has proved much tougher for people...
La recherche globale pour l'éducation: Comment soutenir votre système éducatif
“70% of the variation in student achievement is accounted for by factors outside of the control of schools.” — Charles Ungerleider Professor Charles Ungerleider tells me he wrote his book, Failing Our Kids — How we are Ruining Our Public Schools (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), after he completed a term as Deputy Minister of Education for British Columbia. Pour 40 years he had observed the Canadian...
La recherche globale pour l'éducation: 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.” — Le président 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...
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