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Continue reading →: Silver Lining for Learning: Conversations about Reimagining Education in Times of Crisis
Silver Lining for Learning: Conversations about the Future of Education 5:30-6:30pm EDT (US) Saturdays Episode 1: March 21st Watch at: URL to be announced. Twitter: #silverliningforlearning Don’t waste a crisis — M.F. Weiner The “dark cloud” of the Coronavirus crisis continues to cause havoc worldwide and seems a generation-defining event.…
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Continue reading →: What If Schools Are Closed for More than a Year Due to the New Coronavirus (COVID-19)?
The outbreak of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) has already forced schools and universities to close in China. It has also resulted in increased difficulties for international students to travel to attend their educational institutions as well as stoppage of on the ground operations of supplementary education (tutoring) services. Korea, Japan,…
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Continue reading →: PISA Peculiarities (4): High Test Scores, Low Life Satisfaction
PISA has many peculiar and surprising discoveries… PISA wants to offer advice on anything and everything considered important to students in the world so it has decided to jump on the bandwagon of student well being. Life satisfaction is a very important aspect of well being because it “is closely…
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Continue reading →: PISA Peculiarities (3): More Fear, Better Scores
PISA has many peculiar and surprising discoveries… Fear of failure improves academic performance. That’s a conclusion one can draw from PISA’s analysis of its data. This is true at the system level. “At the system level, the greater the fear of failure expressed by students, the higher the reading scores…
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Continue reading →: PISA Peculiarities (2): Should Schools Promote a Competitive or Cooperative Culture?
PISA has many peculiar and surprising discoveries… Should we encourage students to co-operate? Yes, because according to PISA, the omnipotent judge of education policy and practice: In about 78% of school systems, and on average across OECD countries, students scored higher in reading when they reported greater co-operation amongst their…
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Continue reading →: PISA Peculiarities (1): Why doesn’t growth mindset work for Chinese students?
PISA has many peculiar and surprising discoveries… Having a growth mindset is negatively associated with academic performance for participating students from China (Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang or B-S-J-Z China), according to the 2018 PISA results. That is, Chinese students who had a fixed mindset scored higher in PISA reading than those who had…
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Continue reading →: More and Different: The Impact of AI on Future Jobs and Education
“Better-paid, better-educated workers face the most exposure” to AI, concludes a recent report about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs in the future. This conclusion should make us question the widely held belief that our children should get more education. More education is never a bad idea and has long…
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Continue reading →: The PISA Illusion
This article was originally published in the Washington Post on December 3rd 2019. It was adapted from part one of an article to appear in Journal of Educational Change. The longer version discusses three illusions PISA has created and relied on for its undeserved impact on global education: the illusion of excellence, the illusion…
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Continue reading →: Problems with Evidence-based Education: Side Effects in Education
The following is the Introduction of my book What Works Can Hurt: Side Effects in Education published by Teachers College Press in June 2018. Introduction “Ibuprofen may cause a severe allergic reaction,” you are warned when you buy a bottle of Advil, and “this product may cause stomach bleeding.” Medical products are…
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Continue reading →: Stop Looking at My Bad Leg: Introduction to my new book: Reach for Greatness
My latest book Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All has ben released by Corwin Press. You can order it from Corwin or Amazon. Below is the Introduction. ******************** Benjamin Franklin wrote about a philosopher friend of his who used his two legs to determine with whom to avoid acquaintances more…
More about Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Additionally, he worked as a professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne and senior researcher at the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University in Australia. He was a visiting Global Professor at University of Bath and a visiting scholar at Warwick University in the UK.
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