September 2011
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The Global Search for Education
“Good Teachers are critical. It is an absolutely vital factor.” — Dr. Ben Levin
More from Canada
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
“The U.S. cannot improve its education system for all or even most children by keeping its present focus on charter schools, more testing, teacher evaluation and union bashing. None of those feature in the best-performing countries....
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The Global Search for Education
“Children do not always learn what we teach. That is why the most important assessment does not happen at the end of learning - it happens during the learning” — Dylan Wiliam
What Did You Learn Today?
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
“It is right that teachers and schools are accountable to those with a stake in public education, and this requires...
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Bad Education System - What's the Real Cost?
By C. M. Rubin
Investment in education is investment in people and in a nation’s future. And it is also about money!
“The cost to individuals and society of young people leaving school without a qualification keeps rising,” stated OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría in connection with the OECD’s annual Education at a Glance report.
According to this report, the global...
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The Global Search for Education
“70% of the variation in student achievement is accounted for by factors outside of the control of schools.” — Charles Ungerleider
How to Support Your Education System
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
Professor Charles Ungerleider tells me he wrote his book, Failing Our Kids – How we are Ruining Our Public Schools (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), after he completed...
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For the Children by C. M. Rubin
Brooke Jackman Foundation 10th Anniversary Read-a-thon is at the World Financial Center (Photo courtesy of Brooke Jackman Foundation)
September 13, 2001
In the playroom outside the doctor’s office, my six-year-old son was maneuvering a toy airplane through Lego constructed twin towers. The doctor explained his stomach pains were a symptom of post traumatic stress. In the midst of the...
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The Global Search for Education
“We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live” — Howard Gardner (photo courtesy of Harvard University)
What Do We Value Most?
By C. M. Rubin with Harry Rubin and Michael Freeborn
What do the 81.5 million students in this country believe their families value...
