The Global Search for Education: Ticks – More from Norway
C.M. Rubin, Dr. Richard Horowitz, and Siw Hansson at the NorVect Global Tick-borne Diseases Conference in Oslo Complicated problems usually have many dimensions and require multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary strategies to solve them. We talk about this approach in global 21st century education reform all the time, but we live in a world that sometimes forgets the lessons. One of my loved ones became seriously ill in 2006 with...
The Global Search for Education: South Africa – Future Focus
“It is the teacher who shows his/her students through her own behavior, what it means to be compassionate and accepting of others different from themselves, or not. It is the teacher who creates the opportunity for young people to practice democratic thinking and action.” – Dylan Wray Societies with turbulent racial pasts face challenges and opportunities when shaping their country’s future. As we learned from...
The Global Search for Education: Ticks – Research We Need
“The starting point for all research must be to look at the tick itself to understand which bacteria and viruses are in the ticks, especially in endemic areas. It’s important we examine this because most patients suffer from multiple infections.” – Dr. Armin Schwarzbach As renowned scientists and clinicians from all over the world head to the international Norvect Conference at the Grand Hotel in Oslo next...
Alice – What is Alice150?
Dr. April Lynn James (aka Madison Hatta) performing The Twinkle Bat Variations: A Work and Life in Progress Alice150: Celebrating Wonderland will be a global festival beginning in early October 2015 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Author Tim Manley and his delightful book, Alice in Tumblr-land The festival that The Lewis Carroll Society of North America...
The Global Search for Education: New Study – Students Want Input
“Students should have a voice in how their own data is used.” – Kelly Goodrich A fascinating new study reveals that students want more input in their education and specifically on the relevance of testing. The Make Assessment Matter study underscores that students and teachers place less relevance on high stakes accountability assessments but agree that tests are helpful when they are meaningful to individual...
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