Around The World In 30 Days – April 2015
C. M. Rubin’s global education report In April, I continued my conversations with thought leaders around the world on many topics including the role of standardized testing, global inequality, creativity, and innovation in our world today. I saw first hand the amazing work that Creative Oklahoma is doing in that state to nurture the arts with schools, business leaders and communities. This is the age of innovation and all our...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – How do you balance preparation for high stakes assessments with teaching and learning in your classroom?
The use of high-stakes achievement tests around the world have created controversy among teachers, parents, students, administrators, policy makers and heads of state. But whether or not you’re a supporter of high-stakes testing, the fact remains that for now, these assessments exist; so perhaps the more important inquiry to pursue is how do teachers balance preparation for high stakes assessments with teaching and learning in...
The Global Search for Education: An Education in Africa
“When I visited a local village, what everyone told me — the chiefs, the parents, the children — was that girls weren’t in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.” — Ann Cotton Educating girls is a very powerful tool for ending global poverty. Ann Cotton is the Founder and President of Camfed, a world renowned non-profit organization...
The Global Search for Education: 革新, Innovación, Innovation, ابتكار, Inovação, инновация, イノベーション, নবপ্রবর্তিত বস্তু, Innovazione!
Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun – Past TDIA Honorees Winston Churchill once said, “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Welcome to the age of innovation. Governments crave it, great entrepreneurs awe us with it; and where would all our futures be without it? There are those born to lead and those content to follow; the former are most likely to be...
The Global Search for Education: Being Global – An International Pre-Graduate Program
“We want students to be well informed and prepared before they apply to their top choice graduate schools.” — Tom Rock Economies around the world continue to promote intercultural exchanges and study abroad. “Students mobility is at the highest level that I have ever seen it,” comments Tom Rock, Associate Provost for Enrollment Services at Teachers College, Columbia University. The US has always been...
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