The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine Secretary Weingarten
“If we could turn back the clock, we would like to have seen a greater emphasis on our biggest challenges–funding inequity, segregation, the effects of poverty. We would have welcomed a major expansion of high-quality early childhood education, and greater support for career and technical education and community schools.” — Randi Weingarten What will be the legacy of Race to the Top and Barack Obama’s...
The Global Search for Education: Top Global Teacher Bloggers – How do we inspire the best and the brightest to become educators?
The role of teachers is paramount to raising educational standards around the globe. In countries such as Finland, Singapore and South Korea, teachers are recruited from the most qualified graduates, are highly trained, respected and paid well. But that’s not the case in every country. According to Mckinsey’s “Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching”, in the...
The Global Search for Education: Education is My Right – India
“A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.” — Shaheen Mistri “Seva,” the Hindi word for “service,” is one of Teach for India’s...
The Global Search for Education: From Argentina
“The direct contact with actual physical phenomena was the key to developing science topics in more depth.” — Silvina Gvirtz How did the Principals of School No. 20 of Campana (Buenos Aires) significantly improve student engagement with Science in their classrooms? School No. 5 of Ensenada (Buenos Aires) had a student absentee rate of over 20%. So how did the Principal Patricia Velez solve the problem? Twenty...
The Global Search for Education: Education Is My Right – United Kingdom
“Education systems have untapped potential to improve themselves.” – Mel Ainscow Equity-focused educational change is probably the most discussed, debated and urgent problem we face in U.S. education today, particularly as poverty continues to grow. The term “closing the achievement gap” refers to decreasing the disparities in academic results between Black and White, Latino and White, and recent...
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