Second in the series on inspiring educational stories, “What's working in education?”, The Kelly Yang project in Hong Kong brings American creativity and critical reasoning in the mix with writing and a love of children. The workers in the project need outside resources to teach English, they serve over 600…
As can be seen all over the world, many neighborhoods in inner cities in Brazil face decay, and loss of belief in their schools. This is not the case in San Paulo, Brazil however where citizens are finding their educational system is now integrated with family life. This is the…
We hear a lot about, "the knowledge economy." But unless we live in a part of the world where countries face hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, we may not have considered what this change in the fabric of our world means for education and the economy in the developing…
As mentioned in a previous article, the world's education systems are challenged to transform themselves to meet the needs of the knowledge economy. For world economic growth their graduates need to be able to get jobs or start their own businesses. There may be validity in the idea that education…
One hundred and fifty years ago the world shifted. At that time people left their farms and began working in factories. When the children of the age ran ragged in the streets, our cultural forefathers asked: How do we prepare our children for this new world, the world they will…
