The Global Search for Education: United States and Finland – Why are they so great?
“American scholars and their writings, like Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, have been influential in building the much-admired school system in Finland.” — Pasi Sahlberg A little over 4 decades ago, Finland transformed its education system as part of the country’s economic recovery plan. Finnish students had become the best young readers by the time the 2000 Program for International...
The Global Search for Education: China – To Follow Or Not To Follow?
“Schooling and the economy are less intimately connected than people realize. A nation’s education system grows out of its larger culture; graft a foreign system onto a different culture and the plant will never flourish.” — Gene Glass Author Yong Zhao has plenty to say about the dangerous consequences of China’s educational authoritarianism and he has begun to convince some very important leaders of global...
The Global Search for Education: The Top 10
“The Global Search for Education series takes important issues related to global education and gives them context.” — Adam Steiner Diane Ravitch, Howard Gardner, Sir Ken Robinson, Pak Tee Ng, Pasi Sahlberg, Tony Wagner, Yong Zhao, Krista Kiuru, Peter Vesterbacka, Randi Weingarten, Jonathan Jansen, Michael Fullan and Andy Hargreaves, among others, have been chosen for our first Global Search for Education Top 10 List....
The Global Search For Education: Helping the World’s Teachers
What does TALIS teach us? Last Thursday, I attended a dazzling gala to watch special education teacher Matthew Cunningham accept the inaugural GEMS Education Chicago Teacher Award. And yesterday, I listened as Andreas Schleicher presented the key findings from the 2013 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). In the context of Education Fast Forward (EFF) Debate 10, “Better Teaching for Better Learning: Results...
The Global Search for Education: Girls and Science
“Learning both art and science – both coding and designing – is needed. You need to position yourself so that when the world changes, you’re ready for it, because you have those underlying skills.” — Michelle Larson In Finland (unlike the United States), the math and science achievements of girls and boys, as tracked by national and international measurements, are very even. Pasi Sahlberg, one of...
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