When low scores on the 2000 PISA exams revealed the inequities in their education system, many German states began to make comprehensive efforts to improve the quality of their schools. For more articles and videos about classrooms around the world, visit our global learning resource page at http://www.edutopia.org/education-everywhere-international-global-resources
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How does PISA help education reform? The cases of Germany & Brazil
How does PISA shape education reform?
Countries can learn from each other’s education successes and challenges to improve learning worldwide. See concrete examples of how countries such as Germany and Brazil have been able to improve their student performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and reform their education systems to be more inclusive.
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RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
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This audio has been edited from the original event by Becca Pyne. Series produced by Abi Stephenson, RSA.
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Evaluating Education Reform: Lecture by Diane Ravitch
An evening with Diane Ravitch on September 30, 2013 at Stanford University was focused on her book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools (Knopf, 2013).
In Reign of Error, Ravitch argues against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve public education. In her lecture, she discusses the topics she addresses in her book, including the strengths of U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how to effectively address the challenges.
A moderated discussion followed, featuring Ravitch; Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford and founding director of SCOPE; and Channa Mae Cook, former principal and teacher and current Stanford doctoral student. Peter Schrag, former editorial page editor and columnist for the Sacramento Bee, moderated. Watch the panel discussion: http://youtu.be/X6V_X2ui46Y?list=UUR5inpnmFScTOnWCz4d1grA
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education; from 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board. She has authored numerous books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools (2013), and The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010). She is an honorary life trustee of the New York Public Library and a former Guggenheim Fellow. She was a member of the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) from 1999 to 2009. She was a member of the board of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation from 1996 to 2009. She blogs at dianeravitch.net.
About the Center for Education Reform
In the emerging landscape of education reform, the Center for Education Reform is the leading voice for structural and sustainable changes that can dramatically improve educational opportunities for decades to come. Our guiding purpose is to improve the accuracy and quality of discourse and decisions about education reform, leading to fundamental policy changes that make a difference long after news and election cycles have ended.
As part of our core mission, the Center works on three primary fronts:
1. Generating and sharing leading ideas and information
2. Supporting and enabling grassroots activism
3. Protecting and stimulating media coverage and issue accuracy
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