The Global Search for Education: A Healthy Start for All
“The best investments a country can make are in good maternal and infant care. Not only will this save lives; it will help produce a society of healthy and productive adults.” — Governor Madeleine Kunin Poverty, ignorance, poor health and undernutrition trap the lives of mothers and infants in vicious cycles according to the findings of a Symposium on Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Emerging Markets that...
The Global Search For Education: Helping the World’s Teachers
What does TALIS teach us? Last Thursday, I attended a dazzling gala to watch special education teacher Matthew Cunningham accept the inaugural GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award. And yesterday, I listened as Andreas Schleicher presented the key findings from the 2013 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). In the context of Education Fast Forward (EFF) Debate 10, “Better Teaching for Better Learning: Results...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – News from Malaysia
“The real challenge for the Malaysian education system is twofold. Firstly, it is to embrace and engage in real and sustainable change, and secondly, to strive for the equity and excellence that the high performing systems around the word embody.” – Alma Harris Why is transformation needed in the Malaysian education system and how will it best be secured and sustained? In the latest PISA tests, Malaysia scored 52nd...
The Global Search for Education: Teacher I Need You
Special Ed teacher Matthew Cunningham awarded the inaugural GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award “But what does it all mean to YOU?” My teacher was referring to all the facts I had memorized and regurgitated in my answer. What did the facts teach me? Suddenly a light bulb went on in my head. And, in that magical moment, we made a connection that would change the way I thought about history forever. “When the magic...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – Part 1
“While there is rich cultural diversity in Asian countries, it is not as pronounced or complex as in many Western systems such as the USA and the UK. In inner city London it is perfectly possible for a teacher to be facing a class of children with ten to fifteen different languages.” — Alma Harris Is education in the East superior to education in the West? Today I begin a new series that explores this question with...
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