Does High Stakes Testing Produce Students Who are "Study Machines?" According to Emma Vanbergen, Shangahi-based study abroad director for BE Education, a company that places Chinese students in British schools and universities, it's not surprising that Shanghai...
Latest Story Note: This is a letter written by a teen living in Atlanta in the year 2063. Her name is Sklyer F., a 14 year-old girl living in Atlanta with her family---3 brothers, her father who home schools his children, and her mother who is an...
"Your education today is your economy tomorrow," is a quote from Andreas Schleicher from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), who has become one of the world's most influential figures in education. I took this statement off the PISA Day...
As I mentioned yesterday, I am in England, and when I do an Internet search I often run across articles and reports from journals and newspapers in this part of the world. I did a search on PISA 2013 test results which will be released tomorrow (Tuesday, December 3rd)...
According to today's lead newspaper story, the results to be released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), show the country has simply "stagnated" since its lackluster performance four years ago. The OECD results will be announced on...
P.L. Thomas explains that to understand U.S. educational reform, foundational differences among the various groups or camps of reform need to be clarified. And, in a post he wrote this week, he has provided a map that we can use to help us understand educational...
