INTRODUCTION Focus, focus, and focus! Focus is what this book is about. Here we aim to help school leaders understand what they should focus on and why. We share examples, vignettes, and practica...
About five years ago, all schools embraced the idea of global competence. Governments wanted their students to be globally competent; organizations such as the Asia Society led the development of...
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Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World By G. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao Published by Taylor and Francis on Jan 31 2022 Introduction How d...
My latest book Learners without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students is published by Corwin in July 2021. Below is Chapter One. It may surprise you to learn that teenagers in Nepal ...
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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-Zhe...
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 di...
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 allerg...
This piece was published in the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet under the title There’s a new call for Americans to embrace Chinese-style education. That’s a huge mistake. on September 20 2...
The results of the Brexit referendum and U.S. presidential election will go down in history as the biggest surprises of 2016. The final results defied all predictions. The polls were wrong, as we...
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) beat PISA by one week. It just released its 2015 results. Within hours of the release, Google News has already collected over 10,000 ...