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 29, 2014 | Influential Thinkers
Today is day #2 of our series on thought leaders in education. We began yesterday with Thomas Kuhn and his theory on how science moves from one paradigm to another. In a nutshell, he says, “When the transition is complete, the profession will have changed its...
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 9, 2014 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
Should we be worrying about preparing students to compete with other nations or thinking about we can ready students to collaborate internationally to solve some of the world’s most complex problems? Here’s an excerpt from a speech Secretary Duncan gave a...
