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Continue reading →: Quick Update: China and 2 million minutes
What is happening in China? and why I disagree with Bob Compton and his film 2 million minutes? Just returned from a 10-day trip to China: August 17, lecture at the training program for directors of Confucius Institutes in Beijing, flew to Kunming, Yunnan 18-19, meeting of the Board of…
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Continue reading →: Demystifying the Link between Performance on International Tests and Economic Competitiveness
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is now using nearly $5 billion to entice states to adopt internationally benchmarked standards. The National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) have argued forcefully for internationally benchmarking education standards as well in a report titled Benchmarking for…
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Continue reading →: Virtual May Not Be Physical, But It Is Real, At Least In Terms of Jobs
In my upcoming book “Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization,” I make the case the virtual world is real in many ways while schools continue to view technology as simply a tool to improve the teaching of traditional subjects. I saw a CNN…
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Continue reading →: The Right to Choose What to Learn: High School Curriculum Reform in China
While the US is pushing for common standards and a more uniform curriculum, China has been working to infuse more flexibility. According to a report by China Education(the report is in Chinese), the national daily education newspaper, Hubei, a province in central China, just unveiled its new high school curriculum…
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Continue reading →: One step closer to standardization: Missouri to join common standards initiative
On August 6th, the Missouri State Board of Education voted to join the Common Standards Initiative. This means that only three states (Alaska, South Carolina, and Texas) are not part of this national movement. Unless something happens right now, the U.S. will enter a new era of education marked by…
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Continue reading →: Interesting discussions about my video on Daily Kos
Thanks to teacherken, the video I did for Mobile Learning Institute has generated some very interesting discussions on Daily Kos
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Continue reading →: The Gardener Effect: Common Standards are Unfair and Exclusive
One of the selling points of common academic standards for all states in the US is that they will ensure equity and fairness in the education a child receives, wherever he or she lives. But this is false advertisement. First, the quality of education a child receives depends on the…
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Continue reading →: Article: Education in the Flat World
This article Education in the Flat World: Implications of Globalization on Education was published in Edge Magazine (Phi Delta Kappa International), 2(4). 1-19. You can download the PDF version here.
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Continue reading →: Video: Catching Up or Leading the Way
This is a video of Yong Zhao’s keynote speech at Asia Socity’s A World Class Education conference on July 11, 2009, Washington DC. It is titled Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization after his new book. http://asiasociety.org/files/Player.swf
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Continue reading →: Video: No Child Left Behind and Global Competitiveness
Ed Week Post about this video: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2009/08/michigan_scholar_questions_com.html Will more standards, accountability, and higher test scores make American students more globally competitive? In the video, Yong Zhao retells his personal story and questions the wisdom of current US education policy. He argues that global competitiveness comes from a diversity of talents…












