The Global Search for Education: New Global Study Offers Insights on Math Learning
“The most remarkable finding really is that teaching strategies clearly trump nationality and social background; many of our observations hold over more than 60 countries.” — Andreas Schleicher What can we learn from the teaching and learning practices of mathematics — school to school and country to country? In 2012, PISA studied students’ performance in mathematics, and additionally, collected data from...
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professional Ethicists – Is Education a Profession? – Part 2
“We should try to raise consciousness about a teaching corps that is highly professionalized.” — Howard Gardner In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the block provide the same expertise and multiple intelligences we expect from human experts? What can be done to preserve...
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