Around the World in 30 Days – May 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report In May, I continued my conversations with thought leaders from China to New York who sketched out for me the conflicting overlaps between creativity, innovation, reform, and testing, and shared their efforts to create coalescence between them. Meanwhile, my Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers contributed some much-needed tips on one of the hottest topics for this time of the school calendar year,...
The Global Search for Education: From Shanghai
“In PISA 2009, we found that Chinese students don’t like rote learning in math. Most teachers don’t believe in rote learning and encourage students to be creative.”– Zhu Xiaohu Shanghai is the largest city in China; who in education is not aware of the fact that this city’s students finished at the top of the charts in the PISA 2009 exam? Since then, educators from all over the world have travelled...
The Global Search for Education: The New Chinese Education
“The new China is strongly making for good,” proclaimed my great great Uncle George E. Morrison (NY Times feature article, 1912) who advised the Chinese leadership during the formation of the first Republic. Dr. Morrison’s speeches about the vision of his Chinese friends at the turn of the 20th century remind me of Henry Kissinger’s remarks about China’s determination to continue its remarkable economic...
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