by edtosavetheworld | Jun 8, 2015 | Influential Thinkers, News and Trends, Testing and Assessments
Emulating the style of a famous report published 30 years ago called A Nation at Risk, Yong Zhao urges us to stop tweaking education and overhaul it. “History is not kind to idlers” (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983, p.1). It is even crueler to...
by edtosavetheworld | May 18, 2015 | News and Trends, Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
Due to my husband’s job, we move around a lot. Like to West Africa and South America. So I thought it would be a good idea to get to know the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program. I’ve been reading about the course called Theory of Knowledge and I went...
by edtosavetheworld | May 12, 2015 | News and Trends, Stage 5: Students as World Changers
For many of us, the transformation of our schools cannot happen fast enough. We look out a world where we can find out what caused the War of 1812 or why adding salt to water makes it boil hotter with a 10-second Google search, where we can teach ourselves to knit or...
by edtosavetheworld | May 11, 2015 | News and Trends
Happy (belated) Mother’s Day! Parents are our first, and most significant, teachers. They shape who we are, what we value, and how we see ourselves in the world more than any single elementary, middle, or high school instructor. Which means, moms, we cannot...
by edtosavetheworld | May 1, 2015 | Book Club, Innovation Series, News and Trends
This incredibly bold statement is the title of Andrés Oppenheimer’s new book about the hope of Latin America and the 5 keys of innovation. It’s actually Crear o Morir because it’s written in Spanish. Oppenheimer asks why the United States produced...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 27, 2015 | News and Trends
As Jill Barshay reports, it’s difficult to accurately calculate the spending gap among schools especially at the state and local level. But the trend is clear: Poor schools are getting increasingly short-changed by the states and localities that fund them. The...
