Read this The New York Times lengthy article by Clifford J. Levy, who is a deputy metro editor of the Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of Russia in 2011.
For four years three American siblings attended an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is only in Russian and classes are videotaped to improve teaching.
You can watch a video showing some of the highlights of the experience embedded in the newspaper article or by clicking here.
Corporations are hiring students to promote their brand on campus. At the University of North Carolina, American Eagle helps first-year students move-in, while Target hosts the inaugural party.
Watch this The New York Times video to find out more about this business practice which might be a bit unusual for us and judge for yourself.
It's a breathtaking concept -- but for the OECD, it's a very real way of finding out how well-prepared today's students are to participate in society. If you're not quite sure what PISA is or does, and you've got about 12 minutes to spare, grab a comfortable chair. This video will help you to understand why the OECD's number-crunchers trigger such intense debate about the state of education around the world every time they release the results of the latest PISA survey.
I couldn't get hold of a transcript, so for comprehension purposes you will have to rely on YouTube's (inaccurate) CC, the powerful effect of the images and, best of all, your own skills.
In this TED talk, career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories... and maybe, a way forward.
Remember you can always activate the English subtitles if you want to fully understand Dan Pink.
Bestselling author and blogger, Neil Pasricha, shares three things that helped him turn his blog into a bestselling book and helped him "grow himself." He calls them the three A's -- Attitude, Awareness and Authenticity.
This TED talk is worth a watch, if you can spare 17 and a half minutes. Pasricha, author of the wildly popular Awesome Blog, gets us thinking about these three A's and how we might apply them back to anything in life.
Class blogs seem to be getting fashionable in the teaching world, as this blog itself shows. But to what extent are they beneficial? This article from The Guardian sheds some light on the issue.
Watch this video brought to my attention by Life Feast, which raises some questions on the topic of education. It is a dense talk by Ken Robinson, made visually simple by the medium of animation.
