The Global Search for Education: A New House of Books for Kabul
“I read because I wanted to find a safe space away from all the turmoil around me, and I found that space amidst pages of books. They gave me peace, strength and wings to fly away from bombs and rockets that kept falling.” — Sajia Darwish Although Sajia Darwish is only a junior at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, she has accomplished more than most do in an entire lifetime. Darwish is driven by two things:...
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: Just Imagine Secretary Ravitch
“In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and the education profession, and as a time in which entrepreneurs sought to turn education into a marketplace for profit.” — Diane Ravitch What will be the legacy of Race to the Top and Barack Obama’s other education initiatives? Indeed, what’s been accomplished in education...
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