PGL2012

What will innovation look like in five years or a decade later? That’s a tough question, but luckily for us, educator and author Tony Wagner will appear at PGL12 to answer that question. He’ll make a case that innovation is the key driver to global competitiveness and a society’s well being. How schools nurture creativity [...]

My colleagues Heather Singmaster, Jessica Kehayes, and I just returned from a multi-country trip to have conversations around international best practice and common issues of concern in education. What we are finding is countries recognize that education will be key to economic growth in a global knowledge and innovation-based economy. Another way to say it [...]

The Partnership for Global Learning Annual Conference will feature practical ways to connect global competence to the process of adopting the Common Core Standards. With 45 states and the District of Columbia adopting the standards, there’s a lot of speculation on how it will all play out. Asia Society has a long history of bringing some of [...]

Today marks the beginning of International Education Week (IEW) 2011. The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit also kicked off a couple days ago. What do they have to do with one another? Quite a lot it turns out. U.S. President Barack Obama said at the APEC Summit opening, “No region will do more to shape [...]

The world is changing at a rate that’s hard to comprehend. Technology, transportation, and global economic systems mean that ideas, people, and goods travel at unprecedented rates. People in Chicago, Chiang Mai, and Cairo have more in common than ever before. Job competition is now global, as is collaboration to identify problems and find solutions. [...]