The Global Search for Education: How Well Do You Know the United Nations?
“We not only neglect to teach the UN in its proper context – the ancient ideas about the need to treat others as ourselves the ‘golden rule’ – found in every major civilization – but fail to connect these ideas with the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was embodied within the UN’s legal structure.” — Laurence Peters The Secretary-General of the United...
The Global Search for Education: WHAT is “Four-Dimensional” Education?
“Our framework is a result of the analysis and synthesis of research on learning sciences, views from futurists and economists, standards around the world, and needs of employers and societies — all organized to be maximally comprehensive, compact, appropriate, and globally relevant.” — Charles Fadel According to Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) founder Charles Fadel, education is “falling behind its...
The Global Search for Education: Bring on the Change
“We have to keep remembering our purpose. In education it is to grow people and to help society evolve.” — Peter Senge At the IB Heads World Conference in The Hague, I talked to Peter Senge, the renowned expert on systems, business management and learning, and senior lecturer at MIT. His bestselling book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization, teaches companies how to be smarter by...
The Global Search for Education: The New Higher Ed
“Members of our Founding Class have secured internships and positions at Ashoka, Learn Capital, Santa Fe Institute, Uber, and other great institutions – equivalent to some of the best opportunities presented to rising seniors or graduates of the Ivy League.” — Ben Nelson Every day the demand for an American higher education increases worldwide. But one of the crucial blocks to achieving a degree is the costly...
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