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Deborah Meier's Blog on Education: February 2012 - Trip to Japan
"My son reminded them that it was not so long ago when teachers and politicians in America were told that Japanese schools were the future. Why can’t we do as they do, we were asked? Before that it was Russian schools. And since then it’s been Singapore and now Finland. We were told Japanese children were obedient and hard working, although listening to the teacher talk last week it was clear that they were having virtually all the same problems we were and moving in the same direction we are. They found our description of Japanese education amusing.

There is a lot of educational turmoil there as here, as two “factions” battle for the future: those wanting a more rigid, centralized, exam-driven top-down approach and those who believe the Japanese have to move in a progressive direction if they are to become innovators as well as followers—economically and politically."
debate  comparison  international  standardizedtesting  obedience  testing  traditional  progressive  policy  via:cervus  education  2012  japan  deborahmeier  _obedience  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
INSPIRE / NEWS & ARTICLES | Design Indaba
"Besides gearing up for World Design Capital 2012, Helsinki is undergoing a food revolution enabled by the temporary, experimental nature of pop-up restaurants."
2012  trends  temporary  pop-uprestaurants  pop-upcafes  restaurants  food  international  finland  helsinki  popup  pop-ups  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Global Gender Gap | World Economic Forum-Global Gender Gap
"The Global Gender Gap Report’s index assesses 134 countries on how well they divide resources and opportunities amongst male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources. The report measures the size of the gender inequality gap in four areas:

1) Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment

2) Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education

3) Health and survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio

4) Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures"
gender  women  gendergap  classideas  rankings  comparison  international  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Why More Americans Suffer From Mental Disorders Than Anyone Else - Alice G. Walton - Life - The Atlantic
"That mental health disorders are pervasive in the United States is no secret. Americans suffer from all sorts of psychological issues, and the evidence indicates that they're not going anywhere despite (or because of?) an increasing number of treatment options…

The WHO has come up with vast catalogues of mental health data, which they are constantly updating. See how the U.S. compares to other countries:"
mentaldisorders  mentalhealth  psychology  us  comparison  2011  trends  international  depression  eatingdisorders  substanceabuse  drugs  pharmaceuticals  society  wealth  inequality  disparity  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Help Exchange: free volunteer work exchange abroad Australia New Zealand Canada Europe
"HelpX is an online listing of host organic farms, non-organic farms, farmstays, homestays, ranches, lodges, B&Bs, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accommodation.<br />
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HelpX is provided primarily as a cultural exchange for working holiday makers who would like the opportunity during their travels abroad, to stay with local people and gain practical experience. In the typical arrangement, the helper works an average of 4 hours per day and receives free accommodation and meals for their efforts."
education  work  travel  activism  glvo  free  helpx  exchange  us  europe  newzealand  australia  international  global  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Dymaxion: Transnationality and Performance
"…I crossed an international border to install an app on my cellphone. That wasn't the nominal purpose of the trip, but if we step back from our understanding of internationalization & international copyright law, that interaction btwn border crossing & the performance of an effectively physical act is almost surreal. More surreal is possibility…that I could have simply traded my Icelandic SIM card for my US one &…effectively, virtually, performed that border crossing…

Like everyone else, my life is bound up mostly w/ those of some few hundred other people, & lived in a specificity of place mostly across some few square km. Unlike many other people, the future is rather more heavily salted into it, & that space is split over various countries. It is unclear if transnational culture or border performance will win, or how long a compromise of ever-increasing osmotic pressure can last. I dearly hope…immediate awareness of our ultimate interconnectedness will triumph regardless."
international  global  borders  simcards  law  copyright  interconnectedness  transnationalism  transnationality  porous  porosity  future  present  eleanorsaitta  bordertown  culture  permeability  osmosis  neo-nomads  nomads  ip  intellectualproperty  vpn  translation  history  serfdom  language  jacobapplebaum  moxiemarlinspike  us  cities  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Edwin Himself is Edwin Negado » John Jay on the importance of language
“Competitive advantage in the future will come from discovery, accessing, mobilizing and leveraging knowledge from other locations around the world”.<br />
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“Cultural knowledge is critical for building iconic brands”.<br />
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“The challenge is to innovate by learning from the world”.<br />
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“In order to learn, you can’t just hang out with the same people, you have to go somewhere and try something and be with people that are different than you”.<br />
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“Technology makes time and distance irrelevant”.
johnjay  language  languages  learning  multiculturalism  international  perspective  communication  diversity  discovery  global  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
350.org
"350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.<br />
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350 means climate safety. To preserve our planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of 392 parts per million to below 350 ppm. But 350 is more than a number—it's a symbol of where we need to head as a planet.<br />
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350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world."
politics  science  climatechange  activism  grassroots  tcsnmy  classideas  change  350.org  community  international  climatecrisis  crisis  sustainability  environment  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
newspaper map | all online newspapers in the world, translate with one click
"Find and translate 10,000 newspapers! Show only newspapers in chosen language. Search place or address."
maps  mapping  languages  news  journalism  world  international  online  media  classideas  global  newspapers  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Three Cups of BS - By Alanna Shaikh | Foreign Policy
"While much of uproar has been over lies Mortenson peddled, I can't help wondering: Why, exactly, did we ever think his model for education, exemplified in Central Asia Institute, was going to work? Its focus was on building schools—that's it. Not a thought was spared for education quality, access, or sustainability. But building schools has never been the answer to improving education. If it were, then the millions of dollars poured into international education over last half-century would have already solved Afghanistan's—and the rest of the world's—education deficit by now.<br />
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Over last 50yrs of studying international development, scholars have built large body of research & theory on how to improve education in developing world. None of it has recommended providing more school buildings, because according to decades of research, buildings aren't what matter. Teachers matter. Curriculum matters. Funding for education matters. Where classes actually take place? Not really."
gregmortenson  schooldesign  developingworld  education  policy  teaching  curriculum  whatmatters  funding  CAI  centralasiainstitute  sustainability  accessibility  international  global  buildings  2011  toldyaso  missedopportunities  tcsnmy  lcproject  pop-upeducation  schools  schooling  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance
"Interestingly, this has not become big news in China, a country that loves to celebrate its international achievement. I had thought for sure China’s major media outlets would be all over the story. But to my surprise, I have not found the story covered in big newspapers or other mainstream media outlets. I have been diligently reading xinhuanet.com, the official web portal for Xinhua News Agency, China’s state-controlled media organization, but have yet found the story on the front page or on its education columns. Instead, I found a story that has caught the attention of many readers (in Chinese) that provides the real reason behind Chinese students’ top performance.<br />
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The story, entitled A Helpless Mother Complains about Extra Classes Online, Students Say They Have Become Stupid Before Graduation, follows a mother’s online posting complaining about how her child’s school’s excessive academic load have caused serious physical and psychological damages:"
education  china  pisa  testing  standardizedtesting  policy  arneduncan  2010  yongzhao  assessment  politics  international  well-being  singapore  korea  japan  hongkong  tcsnmy  schools  teaching  learning  rttt  nclb  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
children  comparison  international  books  sleep  art  photography  world  global  via:cervus  jamesmollison  wealth  disparity  incomegap  poverty  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
A revolution against neoliberalism? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
"If rebellion results in a retrenchment of neoliberalism, millions will feel cheated."
egypt  neoliberalism  politics  revolution  capitalism  2011  us  policy  international  world  rebellion  aljazeera  rhetoric  reality  history  mubarak  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Gaia University
"Gaia University is a unique un-institution for higher learning. We offer access to accredited degrees and diplomas arising from your work in personal and planetary transformation. Through action learning you pursue a pathway of your own design - in the location of your choice - while supported by a global network of skilled advisors and mentors. Come join our vibrant international community and learn and unlearn with us through an integral blend of residential intensives, online exchange, digital documentation and hands-on project work."
sustainability  permaculture  education  activism  agriculture  unschooling  deschooling  gaiauniversity  via:steelemaley  the2837university  agitpropproject  lcproject  highered  highereducation  learning  mexico  chile  porland  oregon  international  puertorico  tennessee  germany  austria  california  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Teacher Pay Around the World - NYTimes.com
"American teachers spend on average 1,080 hours teaching each year. Across the O.E.C.D., the average is 794 hours on primary education, 709 hours on lower secondary education, and 653 hours on upper secondary education general programs."<br />
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"In the United States, a teacher with 15 years of experience makes a salary that is 96 percent of the country’s gross domestic product per capita. Across the O.E.C.D., a teacher of equivalent experience makes 117 percent of G.D.P. per capita. At the high end of the scale, in Korea, the average teacher at this level makes a full 221 percent of the country’s G.D.P. per capita."
teaching  teachers  comparison  us  pay  salaries  workday  hours  via:grahamje  2009  international  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Principal Difference: A School Leadership Blog by Mel Riddile: PISA: It's Poverty Not Stupid
"A more accurate assessment of the performance of U.S. students would be obtained by comparing the scores of American schools with comparable poverty rates to those of other countries." [See charts.]

"The results of the latest PISA testing should raise serious concerns.  However, the overall ranking of 14th in reading is not the reason to be concerned. The problem is not as much with our educational system as it is with our high poverty rates. The real crisis is the level of poverty in too many of our schools and the relationship between poverty and student achievement. Our lowest achieving schools are the most under-resourced schools with the highest number of disadvantaged students. We cannot treat these schools in the same way that we would schools in more advantaged neighborhoods or we will continue to get the same results. The PISA results point out that the U.S. is not alone in facing the challenge of raising the performance of disadvantaged students."
pisa  education  poverty  research  reading  policy  us  comparison  international  finland  learning  2010  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Fiction - Reality A and Reality B - NYTimes.com
"fiction I write is itself undergoing a perceptible transformation…especially noteworthy change in posture of European & American readers. Until now, my novels could be seen in 20th-century terms…“post-modernism” or “magic realism” or “Orientalism”; but from around the time that people welcomed the new century, they gradually began to remove the framework of such “isms” & accept the worlds of my stories more nearly as-is…<br />
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By contrast, general readers in Asian countries never had any need for the doorway of literary theory when they read my fiction. Most Asian people who took it upon themselves to read my works apparently accepted the stories I wrote as relatively “natural” from the outset. First came the acceptance, & then (if necessary) came the analysis. In most cases in the West, however, w/ some variation, the logical parsing came before the acceptance. Such differences between East & West, however, appear to be fading w/ the passing years as each influences the other."
culture  fiction  literature  writing  change  international  global  harukimurakami  analysis  perspective  reality  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
KIOSK - Interesting things from interesting places
"ARCHIVE: JAPAN, SWEDEN, MEXICO, GERMANY, FINLAND, 8 for 2008 + 1, HONG KONG<br />
AMERICA 1, 9 for 2009, AMERICA 2, Provence, Portugal, Groundhog Day, Iceland, America 3"
art  culture  design  accessories  gifts  shopping  japan  sweden  mexico  germany  finland  iceland  us  international  global  provence  france  hongkong  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Be wary of test score comparisons  | ajc.com
"The first question that should raise eyebrows is who takes the tests. The TIMSS, for example, tests students who are in their “final year of school.” But the ages of students range from 17 in the U.S. to 21 in other countries…<br />
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Then there is the matter of selecting which students from these age groups actually sit down for the test. The U.S. engages in actual sampling, while other countries are highly selective. Russia and Israel, for example, administer TIMSS to native speakers only. Switzerland gives the test to students in only 15 of the highest performing regions of the country.<br />
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Moreover, little attention has been paid to how the tests are constructed. Items that appear on the test are negotiated by the participating countries. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that countries push hard for items that will mesh closely with their curricula in order to look good in the rankings.<br />
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Finally, there is the role that poverty plays in the results."
pisa  timss  testing  standardizedtesting  comparisons  schools  international  education  policy  us  global  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Country Studies
"This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. Each study offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy."
database  demographics  economics  countries  culture  geography  books  reference  countrystudies  studies  international  world  government  history  education  statistics  data  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
OK: How Two Letters Made 'America's Greatest Word' : NPR
"OK, it's quiz time: You probably say it dozens of times every day. It may be the most widely used expression in the world. And yet it's so simple.<br />
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OK, ready for the answer?<br />
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That's it — the word "OK."<br />
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Allan Metcalf is so enthralled by those two letters that he's written an entire book about them: OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word.<br />
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Metcalf tells NPR's Guy Raz that he sifted through a handful of conflicting stories and discovered the birthplace of "OK" — a 19th century Boston newsroom."
language  us  english  international  ok  words  history  humor  books  linguistics  acronyms  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Answer Sheet - What other countries are really doing in education
"To summarize:<br />
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*More emphasis on the whole child, physical education, the arts, fostering talents and citizen skills.<br />
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*Less emphasis on numeracy and literacy or testing<br />
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*Greater respect for teachers, the profession and their role as partners in educational reform.<br />
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I wonder if these people would be interested in putting together a manifesto?"
daltonmcguinty  canada  singapore  us  finland  education  policy  reform  2010  learning  schools  publicschools  numeracy  literacy  wholechild  tcsnmy  art  arts  creativity  teaching  respect  seanslade  international  comparison  timolankinen  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Flavorwire » Daily Dose Pick: Where Children Sleep
"Photographer James Mollison’s Where Children Sleep documents the personal spaces of kids around the world, from the middle-class and prosperous to the strikingly impoverished.<br />
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Over the course of four years, Mollison captured more than a hundred images of children and their bedrooms, with support from independent organization Save the Children. Born in Kenya and raised in England, the artist lives and works in Italy, with his own multicultural upbringing inspiring this moving collection of photos spanning countries as diverse as Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China, India, Brazil, and the United States.<br />
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Visit the Mollison’s website, read a review of Where Children Sleep, learn more about Save the Children, and buy a copy of the book."
children  culture  photography  photojournalism  world  international  poverty  wealth  comparison  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden trailer on Vimeo [See also: http://schoolingtheworld.org/film/]
"If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?<br />
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You would change the way it educates its children.<br />
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The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a "better" life for indigenous children.<br />
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But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.<br />
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"Generations from now, we'll look back and say, 'How could we have done this kind of thing to people?'""
schooling  us  colonialism  education  schools  culture  westernworld  international  global  tradition  economics  imperialism  film  documentary  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Global house prices: Clicks and mortar | The Economist
"The Economist has been publishing data on global house prices since 2002. The interactive tool above enables you to compare nominal and real house prices across 20 markets over time. And to get a sense of whether buying a property is becoming more or less affordable, you can also look at the changing relationships between house prices and rents, and between house prices and incomes."
housing  economics  data  us  uk  japan  international  prices  2010  property  via:cityofsound  housingbubble  graphs  statistics  charts  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Oh DADT! You rascal. | Dinosaurs and Narrative [via: http://scudmissile.tumblr.com/post/1363927791/oh-dadt-you-rascal]
"Well DADT is back in place, we better be careful, not only can we not have openly gay members of our military destroying unit cohesion, neither can we risk alliances with nations that could potentially have our troops working side by side their horribly demoralizing gay troops.<br />
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Therefore we must end our alliances with Albania, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. (which is most of NATO,) Australia, Colombia, Honduras, Hungary, Philippines, and Poland cannot be part of a second coalition of the willing. Neither Ireland nor New Zealand are proper American allies either.<br />
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Instead we should ally only with countries that deny openly gay women and men to defend their countries, such as Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Pakistan."
2010  dadt  military  policy  gayrights  us  international  comparison  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Higher education and wages: Study leave | The Economist [Chart]
"YOUNG people often worry whether the qualification for which they are studying will stand them in good stead in the workplace. According to the OECD, college and university leavers are better placed in the labour market than their less educated peers, but this advantage is not even in all countries. Young graduates living in Spain are particularly likely to end up taking low-skilled work, while those in Luxembourg rarely take anything other than a graduate job. American and British students appear to have the biggest incentive to study: British graduates aged 25-34 earn $57,000 on average. Their Swedish peers earn $37,400."
education  college  colleges  universities  credentials  salaries  comparison  us  uk  sweden  labor  overeducated  work  markets  international  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Bridge planned to link San Diego with Tijuana airport | La Plaza | Los Angeles Times
"Development is underway for a border-crossing pedestrian bridge linking San Diego and the Tijuana airport, a plan that could potentially alter the landscape of travel options in the busy binational region.<br />
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Equity Group Investments, a major private company headed by billionaire investor Sam Zell (who took Tribune Company, the parent of the Los Angeles Times, private), recently acquired key federal approval to develop the plan. With a U.S. State Department's Presidential Permit, the company has the go-ahead to seek approvals for the project from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and from the city of San Diego."
travel  sandiego  tijuana  transportation  airports  borders  international  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Are the American people obsolete? - U.S. Economy - Salon.com
"Have American people outlived their usefulness to rich minority in the US? A number of trends suggest the answer may be yes.<br />
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In every industrial democracy since end of WWII, there has been a social contract btwn the few & many. In return for receiving disproportionate amount of gains from economic growth in capitalist economy, rich paid disproportionate % of taxes needed for public goods & safety net for majority.<br />
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In N America & Europe, economic elite agreed to this bargain because they needed ordinary people as consumers & soldiers. W/out mass consumption, factories in which rich invested would grind to halt. W/out universal conscription in world wars, & selective conscription during Cold War, US & its allies might have failed to defeat totalitarian empires that would have created a world order hostile to market economy.<br />
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Globalization eliminated 1st reason for rich to continue supporting this bargain at nation-state level, while privatization of military threatens other…"
northamerica  globalization  economy  economics  future  outsourcing  rich  money  capitalism  immigration  politics  history  michaellind  class  disparity  emmigration  labor  war  military  privitazation  elite  socialdemocracy  taxes  society  poverty  international  capital  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Schools Matter: The Summer Slump in Reading: An Obvious First Step
"Studies show that American students attending well-funded schools who come from high-income families outscore students in nearly all other countries on international tests. Only our children in high poverty schools score below the international average. Our scores are mediocre because the US has the second highest percentage of children in poverty of all industrialized countries (22%, compared to Denmark's 2.5%). This strongly suggests that our educational system has been successful; the problem is poverty.<br />
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The summer slump in reading among children of poverty has been linked to lack of access to reading material. Children from low-income families read less because they have little access to books at home, at school and in their communities. Public libraries in high-poverty areas are not well-funded, and have fewer materials and are open fewer hours than those in low-poverty areas..."
stephenkrashen  poverty  policy  us  testing  standardizedtesting  testscores  international  pisa  compartisons  wealth  class  libraries  summer  yearround  education  schools  tcsnmy  lcproject  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
UniGroup, Inc. | Relocating People | Transporting Products | Managing Projects
relocation  shipping  tranport  international  global  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Future Perfect » 10 Tips for International Relocation [The whole list & comments are worth the read. Some of the items above contain further details.]
"China is now the fifth country I’ll feel comfortable calling home...each time the process of relocating has become a little easier. Whilst each of the moves was under very different circumstances, life stages the following tips picked up on the way might help smooth your next relocation:<br />
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1. You don’t need a job or apartment lined up to make the leap. Sure it might mean sofa-surfing or taking career diversions – these are the tangents that reveal & shape the new you.<br />
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2. International relocation is the ultimate excuse to have a brutal clear-out...<br />
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3. Heart first, then wallet: first figure out where you want to go, the logistics & money to make it happen will stretch & contract to your budget.<br />
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4. Never apply for a single entry visa when multiple entry is an option. Any additional cost is easily outweighed by the flexibility it provides...<br />
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6. Keep a digital scan of all your important documents...<br />
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7. Backup your most important stuff to the cloud..."
janchipchase  international  howto  housing  moving  global  life  jobs  work  travel  tips  relocation  yearoff  cv  migration  logistics  advice  glvo  documents  dropbox  amazons3  s3  transmit  banking  shipping  purging  travellight  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Historical Financial Statistics - The Center for Financial Stability
"Welcome to Historical Financial Statistics, a free, noncommercial data set that went online in July 2010. We aim to be a source of comprehensive, authoritative, easy-to-use macroeconomic data stretching back several centuries. Our target range of coverage is from 1492 to the present, with special emphasis on the years before 1950, which few databases cover in detail."
via:lukeneff  economics  finance  financial  history  statistics  reference  macroeconomics  politics  ngo  data  business  international 
august 2010 by robertogreco
International Program Catches On in U.S. Schools - NYTimes.com
"Many parents, schools and students see the program as a rigorous and more internationally focused curriculum, and a way to impress college admissions officers.
ib  internationalbaccalaureate  schools  education  standardization  international  policy 
july 2010 by robertogreco
This Week In Education: Thompson: The Equality Trust [via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=51768]
"Just as out-of-school effects trump schools' & teachers' contributions to learning, equality & inequality trumps economic wealth in creating livable society. Americans living in more equal states live around 4 years longer than those in more unequal states."
inequality  disparity  income  economics  well-being  education  comparison  us  statistics  world  international 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The Nobelity Project - What you do, where you are, matters. -Desmond Tutu
"What We Do
education  nonprofit  disruption  philanthropy  green  activism  environment  aid  poverty  global  energy  humanitarian  enlightenment  power  film  future  international  austin 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Big Thinkers: Linda Darling-Hammond on Becoming Internationally Competitive | Edutopia
"Stanford University professor and noted researcher Linda Darling-Hammond discusses what the United States can learn from high-achieving countries on teaching, learning, and assessment -- from Finland to Singapore."
education  learning  teaching  schools  reform  21stcentury  edutopia  curriculum  international  global  finland  singapore  lindadarling-hammond  tcsnmy  projectbasedlearning  inquiry  inquiry-basedlearning  nclb  policy  standards  us  teachereducation  training  classpreparation 
february 2010 by robertogreco
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The Guardian
"Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed. But the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations. The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful "deal" so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame. How do I know this? Because I was in the room and saw it happen. ... Copenhagen was much worse than just another bad deal, because it illustrated a profound shift in global geopolitics. This is fast becoming China's century, yet its leadership has displayed that multilateral environmental governance is not only not a priority, but is viewed as a hindrance to the new superpower's freedom of action. I left Copenhagen more despondent than I have felt in a long time. After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away."
politics  environment  change  international  barackobama  climate  china  globalwarming  climatechange  copenhagen  economy  geopolitics  blame  2009  global  green  un 
december 2009 by robertogreco
News: Catching Up to Canada - Inside Higher Ed
"So what might the United States do to catch up to Canada? Or, as Parkin put it, "We're giving you our pointers so that you can help President Obama meet his goal."
canada  us  education  highereducation  international  competition  enrollment  retention  accessibility  rankings  communitycolleges  oecd  income  competitiveness  graduationrates 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: RttT Input Meeting Impressions
"I stuck around for LDH's [Linda Darling-Hammond] afternoon presentation on international perspectives on high school assessment. Her line of argument strikes me as airtight and devastating, striking right at the heart of the whole "competitiveness" premise for reform. The school systems around the world that are outperforming us (supposedly) simply aren't anything like the one that "reformers" are advocating.
lindadarling-hammond  assessment  reform  rttt  education  policy  comparison  international  us  highschool  competitiveness 
november 2009 by robertogreco
GESTIARIUM PROJECT [more here: http://www.gestiarium.blogspot.com/]
"La enciclopedia visual de todos los gestos del mundo"
argentina  italy  us  france  colombia  mexico  brasil  germany  gestures  glossary  dictionary  bodylanguage  language  communication  world  global  international 
september 2009 by robertogreco
What's For School Lunch?
"Various school lunches from around the world. School lunch doesn't really represent the best a country has to offer, but we still love it, because we grew up on it."
schools  food  blogs  photography  international  global  world 
august 2009 by robertogreco
CitySounds.fm - The music of cities
"Hello and welcome to CitySounds.fm! Here you can listen to the latest music from your favorite cities around the world.
via:preoccupations  music  cities  international  urban  ambient  streaming  sound  sounds  audio  world  aggregation  citysounds 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Can China buck the dollar? | csmonitor.com
"Despite America's debt woes, the US dollar is still being used in the vast majority of international trade deals. Until China's leaders stop acting like emperors over their own people, the dollar will be the emperor of world currencies for some time to come."
dollar  us  currency  world  global  international  economics  china 
july 2009 by robertogreco
11 Most Bizarre Border Crossings Around The World
"For many, crossing a border conjures images of border personnel with stern expressions and gun belts, paperwork, questions, long lines and maybe sweaty palms. But borders can also be green, beautiful, informative and friendly – unusual, to say the least. It is also truly amazing where one can find border crossings, so follow us on a tour of astounding checkpoints around the mountains, deserts, seas and cities of the world."
borders  international  world  us  mexico  sandiego  tijuana 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Everywhere: Travel is All Around You
"Designed for people looking for authentic world experiences, Everywhere gives a voice to travelers worldwide who wish to tell their stories and share their favorite places."
magazines  travel  everywhere  place  geography  international  photography  web2.0  maps  mapping  collaboration  writing  crowdsourcing 
july 2009 by robertogreco
What Makes a Good Fourth-Grade Reader? Knowledge ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"These were comparative literacy studies conducted of grade 4 students in 2001 & 2006. Willingham writes, "Hong Kong ranked 14th among 35 participating countries in the 2001 administration of the test. In 2006, HK students ranked second among 44 nations." In case you are wondering, the top-rated country according to the report was Russia. Not only that, Russia climbed from 528 in 2001 - the same place as HK - all the way to 565, one better than HK. Why not focus on Russia? Or maybe some other top-scoring jurisdictions, like Alberta & Ontario, Canada. That makes up your top four. But Willingham can't use that (or other countries, like Hungary, Luxembourg & Sweden, all of which fare better than the US) as his sample, because they don't support his hypothesis. Quite the opposite. What unites these countries - and differentiates them from the U.S. and other lower scoring countries - is social and economic equity (see figure 6 on page 14 where this correlation is very clearly established)."
testing  assessment  reading  class  economics  society  education  schools  research  stephendownes  comparison  international  global 
july 2009 by robertogreco
China and the end of westernisation | John Gray | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"the Chinese version of modernisation is no more universally applicable than the American model. Rather, from now on there will be modern societies of quite different kinds, interpenetrating in many ways but not becoming progressively more alike.
us  future  modernity  culture  society  trends  books  world  china  global  international 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Marketplace from American Public Media | Marketplace and Homelands Productions | Working
"Working. It's what most of us do for half our waking lives. It's how we feed and clothe ourselves and how we support our families. It shapes our sense of who we are, and of where we fit in the scheme of things.
economics  business  work  world  capitalism  global  international  labor  audio  production  radio 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Paul Twomey: don't underestimate the formational impact a globally ubiquitous internet will have on the post-recession world
"I see "suits" in Manhattan, shop owners in Hyderabad, tour guides in Luxor, students in Santiago del Chile, Aboriginal artists in Alice Springs, fisherman in Hoi An; all glued to their handsets & the net. This empowerment of individuals, especially in the developing world, is transforming social, economic, & political relationships. ... it is ... vital that we avoid fragmentation & maintain a single interoperable internet. ... network expansion must continue in order to spread the benefits more widely, & the internet's tradition of coordination of technical evolution among multiple stakeholders needs to be maintained. Corporate or governmental attempts to control will stifle innovation & entrepreneurialism & risk fragmentation. ... [the net] will provide a mechanism for the development of new business models, previously unknown ways connecting people & communities, new possibilities for the delivery of services, & a feedback loop for the population"
via:preoccupations  mobile  internet  change  ubicomp  progress  empowerment  innovation  entrepreneurship  economics  society  global  international  politics  policy 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Children Not in School on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
school  schooling  education  unschooling  homeschool  world  maps  mapping  learning  us  international  children  demographics 
may 2009 by robertogreco
World Digital Library
"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
education  art  culture  online  history  books  research  media  maps  information  visualization  reference  world  international  archives  libraries  unesco  resources  digitization  images  classideas  latinamerica  middleeast  asia  europe  us  northamerica  caribbean  africa  timelines  timeline  primarysources  mapping 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Lessons from most successful schools abroad | csmonitor.com
"Education trends from other nations are gaining cachet as political and educational leaders strive to bring American schools in line with the demands of the 21st-century global economy." Part of the "What makes a teacher good?" series - see the sidebar for the other articles.
finland  singapore  schools  education  us  teaching  learning  policy  international  global  globalization  csmonitor 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
humanrights  un  government  international  activism  culture  society  politics  humanity 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Vote Obama or McCain: Global Electoral College | The Economist
"The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world's countries (including the United States) a say in the election's outcome. As in America, each country has been allocated a minimum of three electoral-college votes with extra votes allocated in proportion to population size. With over 6.5 billion people enfranchised, the result is a much larger electoral college of 9,875 votes. But rally your countrymen—a nation must have at least ten individual votes in order to have its electoral-college votes counted."
2008  elections  barackobama  visualization  international  johnmccain  world  us  maps  politics  global 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Memories captured through art and technology - San Jose Mercury News
"Jet-setting from Japan to London, UC Santa Cruz art professor Dee Hibbert-Jones is capturing the emotions and memories of the inhabitants of international cities and putting them on display. "Are We There Yet?" is the title of her public artwork and interactive sound installation that was exhibited on a Japanese subway and in two Yokohama galleries. Visitors were allowed to check out an MP3 player from one of the galleries then travel the subway while listening to other travelers' personal anecdotes. As they pass through each of the 32 subway stations, they hear a different story. "This creates an 'emotional mapping' of the city, allowing the listener to inhabit other travelers' relationships to places, memories and spaces," Hibbert-Jones said in an e-mail."
memory  art  technology  cities  emotions  international  glvo 
october 2008 by robertogreco
German deposits guarantee blows hole in EU's action plan | Business | The Guardian
"On Saturday, clearly aware that they could be facing the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, the four leaders backed Sarkozy's call for a global summit to draw up a new international financial system to replace the one adopted at Bretton Woods in 1944. "We are laying the foundations of entrepreneurial capitalism, not speculative capitalism," he told journalists. "After this crisis we will have built the pillars of a new financial world." Tougher international regulation should be applied to all financial market players, including hedge funds, he said."
via:cityofsound  economics  europe  markets  world  international  crisis  2008  capitalism  future 
october 2008 by robertogreco
America Latina: chau al pasaporte | Blog de Viajes
"En este último año, una serie de reuniones entre los gobiernos latinoamericanos tuvieron como objetivo eliminar la necesidad de usar pasaporte para que los ciudadanos de la región que debían movilizarse a otras naciones latinoamericanas. De a poco ese objetivo se va cumpliendo, y ya son varios los países que han anunciado esta medida, como Perú, Colombia y Ecuador. Antes, sólo se podía viajar sin pasaporte, a lo sumo, a las naciones límitrofes."
latinamerica  travel  passports  international 
october 2008 by robertogreco
techPresident – Beyond the Mobile Hype In Election '08
"Despite all of the hype surrounding the text message party planning at the DNC , or Obama's text to screen or VP text announcement, it is important to realize that mobile phones have been used politically before with a far greater viral reach and, in the end, impact.
mobile  phones  elections  sms  international  2008  politics  barackobama 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Does Flat Fall Flat for Teens? Re-thinking Global Collaborative Learning Projects | Beyond School
"Face to face is possible across town, and less so around the globe - and face to face seems, if I get danah right, to matter more to teens. The world may indeed be flattening, but round may have its own excitement for them."
local  global  clayburell  flatworld  danahboyd  youth  teens  networking  teaching  schools  engagement  students  international  collaboration 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The Five Dollar Comparison
"To explore the relative value of five dollars we are collecting examples from around the world by asking people to submit photos of objects or services that cost the equivalent of $5."
economics  society  world  international  comparison  currency  collaboration  capitalism  experiments  exchange 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Switching On: Connecting the World: Developing nations leapfrog West as mobile phone useres explore the limits - The Guardian Weekly [.pdf]
"Corruption is bypassed, elections checked and poor farmers informed...African farmers get commodity prices by text, pushing out 'briefcase buyers' who turn up and offer less...How text messages save lives in India."
technology  leapfrogging  development  world  global  mobile  phones  gamechanging  change  international  filetype:pdf  media:document 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Green School - Bali, Indonesia | Linking Learning to Life
"Green School students are exceptionally curious, engaged, and passionate about their education. Our dedicated teachers, challenging curriculum, and inspirational learning environment enable every child to succeed and become leaders of their generation."
bali  schools  schooldesign  lcproject  sustainability  entrepreneurship  education  indonesia  innovation  environment  green  international 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Los peores turistas del planeta « Clan-destinos - "Entre los peores turistas destacan los chinos, los indios y los franceses. Son considerados maleducados, quejicas, y reacios a lo local....
"Especialmente, el estudio destaca la falta de voluntad de los franceses para hablar la lengua del país, y el poco interés de los chinos por la cocina local...mejores sobresalen los japoneses ...seguidos por los alemanes, británicos y canadienses."
tourism  french  chinese  indians  international  globalism  nationalism  japanese 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Newsvine - Travel experts: US share of foreign tourists slips
"Despite the weak U.S. dollar, a boom in international travel around the world hasn't translated into an explosion of foreign tourists to the United States."
tourism  travel  us  economics  international  policy 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Poder 360° - The Urbanist Party: With 80 percent of Americans living in suburban areas, could they organize into a new political party?
"If you live in a big city, you will probably find yourself more in agreement with your neighbors—or even with city-dwellers on the other side of the world—than you will with rural members of your national political party."
future  policy  sustainability  urbanplanning  urban  urbanism  politics  government  us  world  international  progressivism 
june 2008 by robertogreco
LuaKa BoP: David Byrne: “I Hate World Music”
" In my experience, the use of the term world music is a way of dismissing artists or their music as irrelevant to one’s own life. It’s a way of relegating this “thing” into the realm of something exotic and therefore cute, weird but safe, because
music  davidbyrne  international  global  marketing  geography  worldmusic 
june 2008 by robertogreco
I Hate World Music, Too « Staccato Signals of Constant Information
"Byrne gets to the heart of the contradictions inside the phrase “world music.” As a mission statement, Byrne’s ideas are continually in mind as we program music on PRI’s The World."
music  davidbyrne  marcowerman  theworld  international  global 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Empty Oceans Series | csmonitor.com
"Today, fish stocks are disappearing and undersea ecosystems are changing in ways that raise alarm. How did this happen? And what must be done to reverse these trends and sustain life in the world's seas?"
oceans  environment  world  sustainability  history  fisheries  trends  international  global 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Subsidies: a big culprit in high gas prices | csmonitor.com
"For wealthier nations that generally shun subsidies, the price of oil is quickly altering lifestyles...the results are encouraging... [but] Chile and South Korea – are now moving toward subsidies to appease political pressures."
oil  energy  economics  international  transportation  chile  us  china  money  world  global 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Avant Game: Chaotic Fiction, meet Chaotic Community
"Collaborating within an increasingly chaotic community is a vital part of the next-generation fun of MMOs in general, and ARGs in particular...essential to any online platforms for extreme-scale collaboration & collective intelligence, even the non-game
janmcgonigal  arg  games  gamedesign  collaboration  international  global 
june 2008 by robertogreco
GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Wish You Were Here?
"Dispatches from places you didn't think had tourists...Iraq, Venezuela [really? people aren't aware that many people travel as tourists to Venezuela?], Pakistan, Kosovo, Kenya"
travel  tourism  international  global 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Foreign Policy: The List: Top Tourist Spots Americans Can’t Visit
"Looking for someplace special to spend the Fourth of July? FP investigates five fabulous destinations where a summer getaway is next to impossible."
travel  us  politics  international  geography  freedom  foreignpolicy  world  tourism 
june 2008 by robertogreco
At SXSWi, Jane McGonigal talks about 'The Lost Ring' | Geek Gestalt - by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
"interview about The Lost Ring, in which she talked about how she hopes the game will change the perspective of people around the world and how she expects this game to be by far the largest game of its kind in history."
janemcgonigal  lostring  arg  games  olympics  gamedesign  gaming  play  international 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Global Voices Online
"Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be hear
global  blogs  activism  community  world  research  reference  international  aggregator  blogging  citizenjournalism  democracy  folksonomy  perspective  participatory 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange: Mayors of the World, Unite!
"For my money, a League of Cities and Regions – made up of the world's largest cities, regions, states and provinces – is more in tune with what the emerging “post-American” world really needs."
future  cities  megacities  richardflorida  innovation  creativity  geopolitics  global  international  competition  creativeclass 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Argentina, más aislada que nunca · ELPAÍS.com
"La tercera potencia latinoamericana ha perdido peso internacional. Mantiene un sorprendente conflicto con Uruguay, se desentiende de la crisis de Bolivia, se aleja de Estados Unidos y se escribe poco con España"
argentina  international  politics  policy  economics  latinamerica 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Chinese firms bargain hunting in U.S. - Los Angeles Times
"Liu is part of a growing wave of Chinese entrepreneurs expanding into the U.S. From Spartanburg to Los Angeles they are building factories, buying companies and investing in business and real estate."
china  us  markets  economics  returnsourcing  investment  globalization  money  international 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Project Syndicate - The IMF’s Overlooked Revolution
"amid latest financial twists & turns, significant achievement...went largely unnoticed: agreement by executive board of IMF on new quota formula & increases in quotas for under-represented members, particularly emerging-market and developing countries."
globalization  economics  imf  governance  global  international  markets  finance  money 
may 2008 by robertogreco
The Rise of the Rest [Fareed Zakaria] Newsweek.com [comments: http://www.newsweek.com/id/135380/output/comments]
"For America to continue to lead the world, we will have to first join it...Americans—particularly the American government—have not really understood the rise of the rest....Just as the world is opening up, we are closing down."
politics  economics  us  world  globalization  future  history  democracy  fear  optimism  international  gamechanging  policy  foreignpolicy  china  russia  india  development  via:preoccupations 
may 2008 by robertogreco
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