The Global Search for Education: A New Model for Student Assessment – Part 1
“It’s easier to create a statistically valid test for content or for content-related mental processes, whereas it is difficult to measure something like critical thinking, and very difficult to measure something like courage. In short, there is too much focus on Knowledge.” — Charles Fadel Charles Fadel believes there are flaws with the assessment system currently predominant in the United States. “Assessment boils down to evidence of...
The Global Search for Education: The Story of America – A Story of Immigrants
“Ellis Island represents America’s attempt to regulate who could and could not come through this country.” — Vincent Cannato People are moving more freely across borders and continents and this has kept the topic of immigration in the world’s headlines and sparked widespread protests. The Pew Research Center projects that by 2050, more than one-third of US schoolchildren “younger than 17 will either be immigrants...
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