I’ve Moved! Find me at www.NewGlobals.com

I’ve had to blend several blogs into one and the only blog I’m posting on now is this one:
www.NewGlobals.com
I really appreciate your patience these last few months with book title changes and unexpected moves!
Come learn more about global education and innovation and find out what high school counselors and college advisers NEVER tell you about [...]

Great Career Advice From Indiana Jones

Yesterday, my husband and I walked to the local theater here in our Buenos Aires neighborhood to see the new Indiana Jones movie (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).  It was a fun movie, very Spielberg, pretty much what we expected.
My favorite parts, though, were a couple of one-liners tossed out by [...]

Mini-Term: An Experiment In No-Pressure, For-Its-Own-Sake Learning

This post by Anthony Chivetta, one of the students over at Students 2.0 provides a glimpse of the kind of learning experiences that are surprisingly simple but result in a great deal of both real learning and satisfaction. 
He describes a mini-term in which two or three teachers with a shared passion teamed up to offer a short course [...]

Arts Education Boosts Relevance For US Students In A Global Economy

I appreciate this recent editorial in Eduweek in which Stephanie Perrin, the head of the Walnut Hill School, in Natick, Mass. (one of the oldest secondary schools for the arts in the nation) calls for more emphasis on arts education in public schools. 
I love the fact that she points to the arts as a means of connecting with [...]

The Imagine Nation? Poll Shows Surprising Support For Arts, Creativity Training

In this piece in Education Week, we learn that a majority of US voters polled (okay, small sample of only 1000) agree that building students’ imaginations to equip young people with the ability to innovate is as important as teaching them the academic basics.
The results were released by the Washington-based Arts Education Partnership which urged [...]

Author Toni Morrison Cites “Creative Imagination” in Endorsement of Barack Obama

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
Bloggers are having a heyday with this announcement, tearing apart Ms. Morrison’s words and accusing her of being racist. 
Wow.
But what strikes me most about this endorsement is the fact that she cites his “creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom.” 
Wow again.
When’s the last [...]

The World Is Your Campus: The Inside Scoop On the Book I’m Writing About Global Education

I am getting tons of emails from parents and students asking me more about what I will include in the book I’m writing called The World Is Your Campus:  Skip the SAT, Save Thousands On Tuition, and Get An Outrageously Relevant Global Education.
They want to know what kinds of things I’m going to talk about.  [...]

Ed in ‘08 Promotes Two Million Minutes on YouTube

I checked in with Bob Compton a few days ago to see how things are going with Two Million Minutes, the education documentary he produced. 
Bob told me that now that he has partnered with Ed in ‘08 (a nonpartisan project promoting Strong American Schools–watch the short video on the home page!) to promote 2MM, he and the [...]

Overachievers Are Average: The NEW Way For High School Students to Get Attention

One of the blogs I enjoy reading these days (among many) is Student 2.0.  Recently, I read a post by a senior in high school named Stacy called “Average Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore” in which she gives us a look at her own long list of accomplishments and lets us know that she’s practically [...]

Looking for Diversity: If You Want To Make The World A Better Place, Dive Into It

Most college websites offer some sort of blah-blah about their commitment to establishing a richly diverse student population.  A little digging generally turns up some sobering statistics, like maybe the fact that only 4% of the student body is non-white or only 2% of the student body comes from outside the US.
In fact, diversity (or [...]