The Global Search For Education: Impact of Globalization on the North and South Divide
“The pressures in systems in the North is to compete to ensure more and more learners are succeeding in acquiring higher order learning skills as articulated in cross-national tests like PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS.” — Brahm Fleisch The North-South or Rich-Poor Divide is the socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as “the North,” and the poorer developing countries, known...
The Global Search for Education: 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...
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