The Global Search for Education: Girls and Science
“Learning both art and science – both coding and designing – is needed. You need to position yourself so that when the world changes, you’re ready for it, because you have those underlying skills.” — Michelle Larson In Finland (unlike the United States), the math and science achievements of girls and boys, as tracked by national and international measurements, are very even. Pasi Sahlberg, one of...
The Global Search for Education: Japan
“Ours is now a knowledge based society, which requires education to strengthen higher-ordered inquiry, creativity and communication beyond ready-made knowledge and skills acquisition.” — Professor Manabu Sato Many consider Japanese primary and junior secondary level education to be exceptional, yet Manabu Sato believes the quality of his country’s senior secondary and higher education is questionable....
The Global Search for Education: Is Your Child an Innovator?
“There is no competitive advantage today to knowing more than the person sitting next to you.” — Tony Wagner “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” — President Barack Obama, January 25, 2011 Welcome to the Innovation Age. Today’s world will reward the most innovative young people. World leaders, business executives, educators, and policy makers have...
The Global Search for Education: Student Well Being
“Sometimes we have to remind students that a little anxiety is normal, and that learning to deal with pressure by containing it or getting used to it is a necessary skill.” — Mark Wormald It is one of the world’s leading academic centers and oldest universities; a self-governed community of scholars with a reputation for outstanding academic achievement. Like all of the world’s greatest...
The Global Search for Education: The 20%
“The achievement gap is not created by schools. The achievement gap begins before the children are born.” — Diane Ravitch photo courtesy of Rick D’Elia, Save the Children U.S. Programs. Even with food stamps, poor people are still poor. The OECD lists the U.S. as being one of the five top OECD nations with the highest child poverty rate. The impact of poverty is significant in the outcomes of children...
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