Around the World in 30 Days — October 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report The stark problem of inequality from a wide range of theoretical and hands-on perspectives was a major theme in my global discussions this month. Inequality (gender and economic) causes huge gaps in who can get a good education, but it also creates gaps in who are unable to use their education for employment. The solutions are numerous and complex, but one fact is clear — reducing...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Can Social Media Have a Role to Play in Managing a Successful Classroom?
To understand how marketers in different domains are using social media, Social Media Examiner commissioned it’s seventh annual 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report. Some interesting take homes from this report include: 90% of marketers credit social media for generating more exposure for their brands, with 77% citing that a major benefit is increased traffic and 69% saying they use social media to do market research and...
The Global Search for Education: Learning for a New World
“We wanted to look at horizontal collaborative relationships, not just vertical hierarchies. Indeed, in the 21st century a great deal of the relevant learning does not take place in schools at all.” — David Istance A new OECD report, Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning System, shows how to take schools, classroom, teachers, and students out of their default state of seclusion and into the expanding...
The Global Search for Education: What’s Best For Your Child?
“My message is not about education: it’s about childhood. If we really want to improve education in America, and if we really want our children to succeed, we need to re-frame the very questions we’re asking.” — Vicki Abeles The majority of us want a happy, healthy and productive life for our children. However according to Vicki Abeles (Director Race to Nowhere) and author of Beyond Measure, our...
The Global Search for Education: Celebrating Alice – Listen to the Real Alice…
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves and President Nicholas Murray Butler Columbia University at the 1932 Centenary Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s birth When you hear the voice of the Real Alice In Wonderland – Alice Pleasance Hargreaves – extending her thanks to President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University at the spectacular centenary celebrations held in the old Columbia gymnasium on May 4, 1932, you will...
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