Beyond Education: How Do You Build Geniuses?

Developing nations like India are trying to take a great leap forward in education to match their coming leap in population. Can they produce enough good thinkers to produce enough new jobs? Read Entire Article

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Youth Unemployment Crisis Sparks Davos Leaders Into Action

Summit to debate plans to spend billions on continent-wide youth job schemes in bid to reverse upward trend. Read Entire Article

What should be the focus of the American policy on youth unemployment?

Connect All Schools

In an historic speech in Cairo, Egypt in June 2009, President Obama expressed his desire to "create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo." Since then, the Secretary of State and Secretary of Education have both emphasized the importance of learning other languages, gaining a global competency and traveling to other countries.
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Is this an approach that secondary schools should embrace?

Schooling the World

One of the major tenets of the discussion around education reform is the "fact" that the American system is failing to keep up with the rest of the world.

Schooling the World gives us a little different angle on the issue. It analyses the context of education over time, calling "for a 'deeper dialogue' between cultures, suggesting that we have at least as much to learn as we have to teach, and that these ancient sustainable societies may harbor knowledge which is vital for our own survival in the coming millennia." Learn More