July 2011
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The Global Search for Education
Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Liebe der Danae, opening at Bard Music Festival July 29 (photo courtesy of Bard College)
If Music Be the Food….
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at...
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Prime Minister John Key and young New Zealanders celebrate 100 Days to Go to Rugby World Cup 2011 (Photo courtesy of RWCNZ 2011)
New Zealand is Ready!
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
New Zealand’s “Stadium of Four Million” is ready to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup on September 9. In its world cup bid for the championship, this unique multi-cultural...
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Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland
A View from Norway
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
Why have I never been to Norway, I wonder as I view the breathtaking images of this amazing country on Google search. I email my close friend, Norwegian expert and talented architect, Maddy Vigeland, and ask her to share with me a Norwegian view for my new...
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Guangzhou, China education mega center
The Future of Jobs?
By C.M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
Recession. Economic Crisis. Increasing World Competition. For Finland (The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Finland), the successful way forward in this situation was through education reform.
The impact of education on individual and national...
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Freedom: What do July 4th and Alice in Wonderland...
by C. M. Rubin
July 4, 1776 is known as American Independence Day, the day that commemorates the adoption of America’s Declaration of Independence. It is the day on which thirteen colonies from Maine to Georgia, (which today consist of Maine, Georgia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New...
