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2016-09-20 14:22
Launched today, the OECD’s new report, School Leadership for Learning:
Insights from Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013,
specifically looks at different approac… Read More
2016-09-14 22:17
The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) represents the
organization’s ideals. When Ban Ki-Moon steps down from the UN at the
end of December a newly elected Secretary-Gener… Read More
2016-09-08 19:17
As the United States prepares to elect a new President this November,
putting every student on a path towards a successful future should be
required discussion at every presidential debat… Read More
2016-09-01 13:27
As the United States prepares to elect a new President this November,
putting every student on a path towards a successful future should be
required discussion at every presidential debat… Read More
2016-08-30 14:18
What would you do if you were US Education Secretary? What Curriculum
makes education relevant in a 21st Century world? What do Millennials
around the world think about Immigration? What… Read More
2016-08-28 19:16
Today in The Global Search for Education, our teachers share their answers to this question: How
do you help students accept and work well with people of different
beliefs, cultures, lang… Read More
2016-08-24 22:25
Employers complain that graduates are not ready for work. Students who
drop out cite boredom and lack of motivation as their major reasons for
leaving school. Stanford University studies… Read More
2016-08-22 22:12
The Millennial Bloggers are based all over the world. They are
innovators in entrepreneurship, journalism, education, entertainment,
and academic scholarship. This month we asked them to… Read More
2016-08-10 15:03
As the United States prepares to elect a new President this November,
putting every student on a path towards a successful future should be
required discussion at every presidential debat… Read More
2016-08-03 14:58
First-of-its-kind Framework of Competencies Needed for This Century Read more Read More
2016-07-29 14:21
As the United States prepares to elect a new President this November,
putting every student on a path towards a successful future should be
the most important focus for discussion and deb… Read More
2016-07-27 14:23
Today in The Global Search for Education, it’s our teachers’
turn to share their answers to this question: What are the important
skills, behaviors and attitudes that students… Read More
2016-07-24 17:33
As the United States prepares to elect a new President this November,
putting every student on a path towards a successful future should be
required discussion at every presidential debat… Read More
2016-07-20 20:28
Who hasn’t heard of Edmodo, aka the “Facebook for schools” that boasts
over 65 million users in 370,000 schools around the world; where
teachers and learners experience… Read More
2016-07-18 18:07
According to a MIT report, at least 216 million Americans are scientifically illiterate. Read more Read More
2016-07-14 19:06
Who among us feels happy? Who among us would like to be happier? Who
is responsible for us feeling happy or not? Who believes that we have it
in our power to be unbelievably h… Read More
2016-07-10 15:34
Educator and best-selling author Dr. Richard DuFour investigates the state of education today in his new book, In Praise of American Educators – And How They Can Become Even Bett… Read More
2016-06-29 14:20
We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world, and for
those of us passionate about the role of education, events this month
were stern reminders of why our work is important… Read More
2016-06-27 13:19
Today in The Global Search for Education, our Top Global Teacher Bloggers share their answers to this month’s question: How do we inspire the best and brightest to become educators?… Read More
2016-06-16 15:48
How do the admissions decision makers in U.S. Higher Education
institutions decide which international graduate students get in? Read more Read More
2016-06-09 18:52
“I have a kaleidoscope of memories of Jerry,” writes Howard Gardner,
“sitting with a group of students and colleagues, raising questions in a
broader way than most of us… Read More
2016-06-07 23:53
Isadora Baum is passionate about Holistic Health. As a coach, entrepreneur and the founder of Live For You,
she’s dedicated to helping people achieve their personal wellness goals
a… Read More
2016-06-04 22:41
Max Kenner believes that if you were to show the success rates of the
graduates from the Bard Prison Initiative to experts in the social
sciences, they would tell you the results are &ldq&helli…Read More
2016-05-30 15:30
For five years, The Global Search for Education
has been exploring those questions; once again this month, we share more
fascinating insights from around the world. Michael Sweeney, C… Read More
2016-05-30 15:30
For five years, The Global Search for Education
has been exploring those questions; once again this month, we share more
fascinating insights from around the world. Michael Sweeney, C… Read More
2016-05-28 15:48
Our Top Global Teacher Bloggers share their answers to this month’s question: How do we do a better job of cultivating young readers? Read more Read More
2016-05-23 17:41
Just Imagine schools decades from today - what will they be like?Read more Read More
2016-05-16 23:05
But what if it wasn’t a live human producing the performance? What if
the poetry of the soul was read back by something without a soul – the
piano itself?Read more Read More
2016-05-10 18:43
Roland Kupers wants students to develop the kind of habits conducive to
understanding their world in all its complexity. This means
understanding how complex systems work and how systems… Read More
2016-05-05 16:08
It’s just over 5 years since my daughter and I (on the heels of Tim Burton’s 200 million dollar Alice In Wonderland movie that has grossed a whopping $1,025,467,110 to date) sel… Read More
2016-04-29 17:20
In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and
the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack
from all sides. Will the new robots on the b… Read More
2016-04-27 23:26
Today in The Global Search for Education, our Top Global Teacher Bloggers share their answers to this month’s question: What are the best examples you have seen of teachers using soci… Read More
2016-04-21 22:05
Throughout 2016, performances, youth workshops, exhibitions, concerts,
poetry readings, movies and more around the world continue to remind us
of the wonders of William Shakespeare as cou… Read More
2016-04-18 17:53
Today in the third and final part of our Blog Mini-Series Howard will
talk about how he believes people in any line of work can become both
ethical professionals and excellent citizens… Read More
2016-04-15 18:03
Materials for the Arts is one of those organizations you look at and say to yourself – it’s so obvious
– collect surplus materials from businesses and individuals and
re… Read More
2016-04-13 22:30
What if we disrupted Forbes Magazine criteria for its annual Billionaire’s list? What if we defined Billionaires as entrepreneurs helping to solve earth’s most pressing challenge… Read More
2016-04-11 16:16
Today in Part 2 of our three-part blog mini-series, In Search of Professional Ethicists, Professor Howard Gardner will discuss this important topic and how, in particular, education as a pro… Read More
2016-04-08 15:24
The goal of DreamBox Learning’s interactive online math tools and games
is to help learners think for themselves and make sense of math. The
software provider focuses on eleme… Read More
2016-04-04 16:49
In the profit-above-all-world of digitization and automation, ethics and the nature of professionalism seem to be in question and under attack from all sides. Will the new robots on the bloc… Read More
2016-03-29 14:21
From Education Fast Forward’s 17th debate in partnership with UNESCO at
Mobile Learning Week in Paris, to our Twitter Chat on Multiculturalism
in partnership with Edmodo, to intervi… Read More
2016-03-24 16:31
The OECD’s PISA report, The ABC of Gender Equality in Education, featured in The Global Search for Education: Education and Gender,
illustrated that the gender gap cuts both ways &nda&hell…Read More
2016-03-21 17:21
For 20 years, Swann’s passion has been using technology to connect
people and music. In the mid-1990’s, he founded the award-winning
interactive agency, CRASH!MEDIA. In 2001… Read More
2016-03-10 03:20
Meet the teachers who make up the Final Ten shortlist (narrowed down
from 8,000 nominations in 148 countries around the world) in the Varkey
Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize 2016. T… Read More
2016-03-09 02:13
Teaching in a Global Landscape – Mindful Multiculturalism in Today’s Classroom was the timely theme of the recent Twitter Chat hosted by Edmodo (@edmodo) and The Global Search fo… Read More
2016-03-07 21:59
Innovation and Quality: Two Sides of the Same Coin? was
the title of Education Fast Forward’s 17th global debate at Mobile
Learning Week in Paris in partnership with UNESCO. The big… Read More
2016-02-28 22:18
Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Dr. Nicholas Breakwell, Dr. David Perkins, Andreas Schleicher and Pak Tee Ng contributed to The Global Search for Education
discussions this month on future learni… Read More
2016-02-24 23:02
In pursuit of solutions to the problem, The Global Search for Education asked our Top Global Teacher Bloggers this month: What are the top ten ways that administrators can help new teachers… Read More
2016-02-22 15:22
Pak Tee Ng is Associate Dean, Leadership Learning, and the Head of
Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group at the National Institute
of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological Universi… Read More
2016-02-15 15:41
Our world is getting increasingly complex; so how do we know what is
worth teaching and learning? I watched David Perkins’ presentation on
this timely topic at the IB Heads World Con… Read More
2016-02-10 15:28
In my interview with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and
Skills, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at
the Organization for Economic Co-operation and D… Read More
2016-02-08 16:18
Finland, a favorite for us here at The Global Search For Education,
is renowned for its innovative and progressive thinking when it comes
to education. So I was delighted to speak to Kirst… Read More
2016-02-05 00:13
Dr. Nicholas Breakwell spent almost a decade at Hibernia College in
Ireland and its subsidiary in the UK (the latter was recently purchased
by TES Global for whom Breakwell consults). Duri… Read More
2016-01-30 15:19
What are the biggest trends shaping education? Define learning literacy?
How is online education transforming Latin America? Our voices in The Global Search for Education this
month, inclu… Read More
2016-01-27 23:47
And so Joe – thank you for your amazing mind, your compassionate soul,
your ideas, your commitment to education, all of which will live on
through your legacy. “For the Love of… Read More
2016-01-25 15:22
And Thana Faroq is proving it to audiences all over the world with her
powerful photography. Thana explains that her art allows her “to
eliminate ignorance, educate and inspire, even… Read More
2016-01-20 15:33
“Numeracy and literacy are important, but learning is also a vehicle to
help people recover and regain what is most critical to them - their own
dignity, self-esteem, and respect for… Read More
2016-01-18 18:36
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 editio… Read More
2016-01-10 15:58
Gabriel Sanchez Zinny is focused on education and the improvement of
educational quality to fit a 21st century economy. Zinny is the founder
and president of Kuepa.com, a blended learning… Read More
2016-01-05 01:11
“It’s time for me to grow up,” Justin Bieber said in a recent interview. And growing up amidst the pressures of a complex world and a relentless public eye is the tricky… Read More
2015-12-29 23:29
Has there ever been a time when an education framework for 21st century
competencies was more important? What should world citizens learn in an
age of Google, Robots, Climate Change, Incre… Read More
2015-12-21 15:10
Creating world citizens has become one of the hottest topics in
education this year. Students everywhere will need to be globally
competent if they are to succeed in the interconnected eco… Read More
2015-12-17 23:00
The new OECD report, Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration,
based on data from the OECD’s PISA program, finds no link between the
share of immigrant st… Read More
2015-12-11 15:36
Curriculum 2030 – Changing education to achieve the UN’s Global Goals,
was the title of Education Fast Forward’s (EFF) 15th Live Global Debate,
chaired by EFF Fellow Gavi… Read More
2015-12-05 23:52
Siva Kumari, the first female Director General of the International
Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), has a lot on her mind. As global
education systems scramble to find better ways to tea… Read More
2015-12-02 23:42
“Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and
Healthy, Successful Kids,” is written for teachers, school leaders,
parents and students interested in shifti… Read More
2015-11-28 23:28
At the IB Heads World Conference in The Hague, Peter Senge discussed
with me the “Education Renaissance,” sharing both successful learning
strategies and the setbacks to be con… Read More
2015-11-25 15:25
Based on their research in classrooms around the world, what do our Top
12 Global Teacher Bloggers believe are the top games that can help
students learn?Read more Read More
2015-11-22 23:17
The Global Search for Education consistently focuses on how to better
prepare students for the 21st century – an age which will be all about
innovating and building. Today, we’… Read More
2015-11-14 23:16
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… Read More
2015-11-11 21:54
Project: EVO is a mobile game platform that trains your brain to ignore
distractions and stay focused. Pilot study results reveal that the game
improved attention and working memory in ped… Read More
2015-11-08 22:33
Every day the demand for an American higher education increases
worldwide. But one of the crucial blocks to achieving a degree is the
costly price. The Minerva Project was started in 2012… Read More
2015-11-05 00:12
Sanoma Learning has major markets in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands,
Poland and Sweden, where the company is fast replacing the traditional
textbook model by developing innovative, capt… Read More
2015-10-29 15:04
The stark problem of inequality from a wide range of theoretical and
hands-on perspectives was a major theme in my global discussions this
month. Inequality (gender and economic) causes hu… Read More
2015-10-26 14:17
Can Social Media Have a Role to Play in Managing a Successful Classroom? Our talented teacher bloggers have plenty to share on this important topic in The Global Search for Education this mo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
850 world leaders, business leaders, government ministers, and education experts, including Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, gathered in Dubai, UAE this past weekend for the 2nd annual Global E… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"It breaks my heart to think there are children out there who are not being exposed to Arts education. We have to change this!” – Ashley Brown
Read more Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"Fun learning also stands for teaching kids 21st century skills, like critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, creativity and negotiation."
- Sanna Lukander and Peter Vesterbacka… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"This is a story about how love changes over time…The hope is that the emotion of that theme + a twisting thriller plot + great tunes = something unique and exciting for audiences."… Read More
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