The Global Search for Education: Climate Activist Ali Grutchfield Interviews Lord Jim Knight
Dec06
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Around the World in 30 Days – March 2016
Mar29

Around the World in 30 Days – March 2016

C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report From Education Fast Forward’s 17th debate in partnership with UNESCO at Mobile Learning Week in Paris, to our Twitter Chat on Multiculturalism in partnership with Edmodo, to interviewing the Top 10 finalists for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize, to exploring cutting edge technology that’s changing music education, to welcoming the voices of new experts to our...

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The Global Search for Education: Innovation, Quality and Mobile
Mar07

The Global Search for Education: Innovation, Quality and Mobile

“I think technology has the potential to unlock new approaches to assessment that will change what and how we teach. I believe that the current curriculum shape and form that we see around the world with subjects taught in silos has to change.”–  Jim Wynn Innovation and Quality: Two Sides of the Same Coin? was the title of Education Fast Forward’s 17th global debate at Mobile Learning Week in Paris in...

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The Global Search for Education: Oppi-tunities for Parents
May19

The Global Search for Education: Oppi-tunities for Parents

Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Cathy Rubin and Randi Weingarten at Oppi Festival Kick Off Call me mad or just insanely curious, but I visited over 20 schools before I selected one for my kids. For me, the way I educated my kids was the most critical decision I ever made in my life. In virtually every school, the head of school would remind us at the end of the tour, “this is a partnership between us the school and you the parents...

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The Global Search For Education: Helping the World’s Teachers
Jun26

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...

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