The Global Search for Education: Are the Kids Doing Well in the Digital Age?
Nov06

The Global Search for Education: Are the Kids Doing Well in the Digital Age?

What is it like to be a child in 2019? A new OECD report, “Educating 21st-Century Children: Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Age,” says that while better support for physical and mental health has improved modern children’s lives, access to tablets and smartphones before you learn to walk and talk has consequences, good and not so good.

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The Global Search for Education: Dear Parents – A Conversation with Tracey Burns
Jul23

The Global Search for Education: Dear Parents – A Conversation with Tracey Burns

“Children from non-traditional families, for example – single parent, multi-racial, same sex parents, have the right to see their family structure acknowledged and respected.” — Tracey Burns The institution of marriage itself is changing, and Tracey Burns at the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) believes “schools need to take these changes into account.” There are fewer marriages and the divorce rate is...

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The Global Search for Education: Trends
Jan18

The Global Search for Education: Trends

“There is a lot of pressure placed on education to act as one of the major levers to reduce inequality, but it cannot act alone.”  — Tracey Burns Trends Shaping Education 2016 is a new and updated OECD work which looks at major social, demographic, economic and technological trends affecting the future of education. The first edition of the book was published in 2008 and two subsequent editions were published in 2010...

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