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	<title>Education in the Age of Globalization</title>
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	<description>Creative, Entrepreneurial, and Global: 21st Century Education</description>
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		<title>Global Education Leadership: A Graduate Program for Educators and Education Leaders in the Age of Globalization</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2013/02/17/global-education-leadership-a-graduate-program-for-educators-and-education-leaders-in-the-age-of-globalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my latest book World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students, I list a globalized campus as the context for cultivating globally competent creator and entrepreneurs. The idea is to use technology to bring global education resources to schools to personalize education, to engage students on a daily basis in collaborative learning with global partners, and to enable teachers and students to create authentic works for others around the global. A globalized campus requires globally competent and connected education leaders and teachers and a global network of educational institutions. ...]]></description>
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		<title>More Questions about the Common Core: Response to Marc Tucker</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2013/01/17/more-questions-about-the-common-core-response-to-marc-tucker/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2013/01/17/more-questions-about-the-common-core-response-to-marc-tucker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been waiting for a serious conversation about the sensibility of the Common Core State Standards Initiative with its staunch supporters. I am thus very pleased to read Marc Tucker’s response to my five questions about the Common Core. I am honored that Tucker considers my questions worth responding to. His response, while thoughtful and more nuanced than the usual slogan-shouting, emotion-arousing, and fear-mongering evidence-deprived commercials put forth by some instigators and supporters of the Common Core like this one, did not really answer my questions.  But it did ...]]></description>
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		<title>Five Questions to Ask about the Common Core*</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2013/01/02/five-questions-to-ask-about-the-common-core/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are reading this, you know the world didn’t end in 2012. But the world of American education may end in 2014, when the Common Core is scheduled to march into thousands of schools in the United States and end a “chaotic, fragmented, unequal, obsolete, and failing” system that has accompanied the rise of a nation with the largest economy, most scientific discoveries and technological inventions, best universities, and largest collection of Nobel laureates in the world today. In place will be a new world of education where all ...]]></description>
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		<title>TIMSS/PIRLS: Reactions from Asia&#8217;s Top Performers</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/12/16/timsspirls-the-asian-reactions/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/12/16/timsspirls-the-asian-reactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handwringing and head scratching around the 2011 TIMSS and PIRLS results released yesterday continue around the globe. While Western countries show great admiration of the outstanding scores of East Asia and lament on their own abysmal performance, the East Asian education systems, while celebrating their achievement, are worried about something that the media in Western countries rarely mentions. Here are some examples:
Japan:
“But enthusiasm for studying science was below the global average among Japanese second-year junior high students. The fourth-graders interest in arithmetic was also below the world average.” –Japan Times
Singapore:
Nevertheless, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers Can Lie: What TIMSS and PISA Truly Tell Us, if Anything?</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/12/11/numbers-can-lie-what-timss-and-pisa-truly-tell-us-if-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/12/11/numbers-can-lie-what-timss-and-pisa-truly-tell-us-if-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“America’s Woeful Public Schools: TIMSS Sheds Light on the Need for Systemic Reform”[1]
“Competitors Still Beat U.S. in Tests”[2]
“U.S. students continue to trail Asian students in math, reading, science”[3]
These are a few of the thousands of headlines generated by the release of the 2011 TIMSS and PIRLS results today. Although the results are hardly surprising or news worthy, judging from the headlines, we can expect another global wave of handwringing, soul searching, and calls for reform. But before we do, we should ask how meaningful these scores and rankings are.
“Numbers don’t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Suspend Testing after the Hurricane: An Open Letter from Denny Taylor</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/11/05/suspend-testing-after-the-hurricane-an-open-letter-from-denny-taylor/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/11/05/suspend-testing-after-the-hurricane-an-open-letter-from-denny-taylor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Important Research Findings on Children and Trauma Support the Halting of Testing in K-12 Public Schools: An Open Letter to Governor Christie, Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg er
Denny Taylor, Professor of Literacy Studies, Founding Director of the International Center for Everybody’s Child, Hofstra University
11-4-12 
 
Dear Governor Christie, Governor Cuomo, and Mayor Bloomberg,
 
I write to applaud your rapid response to Hurricane Sandy. You have been decisive in your decision making and tireless in your efforts to care for all those who have suffered because of the brute force of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Sandy: Recommendations for Administrators and Teachers by Denny Taylor</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/11/05/hurricane-sandy-recommendations-for-administrators-and-teachers-by-denny-taylor/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/11/05/hurricane-sandy-recommendations-for-administrators-and-teachers-by-denny-taylor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Denny Taylor of Hofstra University asked me to share this. Thanks, Denny.&#8211;Yong
 
November 3, 2012
Recommendations for Administrators and Teachers Responding to Hurricane Sandy:
 
Hurricane Sandy has created long lasting catastrophic conditions in the North East of the United States. People are making heroic efforts to respond to the emergency.  At hospitals in New York City nurses arrived on Sunday and did not leave until Wednesday evening. On Monday Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of NYC, called on New York teachers to be first responders in public shelters in the city. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Enhancing Drugs in School&#8211;From Doug Green</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/10/26/performance-enhancing-drugs-in-school-from-doug-green/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/10/26/performance-enhancing-drugs-in-school-from-doug-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A guest post by Dr. Doug Green at http://www.drdouggreen.com/).


With all of the news about Lance Armstrong, who seems to be the poster boy for performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), I think it’s time to look at how this situation impacts schools. School districts in many districts have been testing high school students for a while to see it they are engaged in the kind of cheating that Lance has been accused of. In some districts the testing goes beyond sports to extra curricular activities. You have to wonder what kind of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Evidence to Support the Common Core: My Questions to New York Education Commissioner King</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/10/07/is-there-evidence-to-support-the-common-core-my-questions-to-new-york-education-commissioner-king/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/10/07/is-there-evidence-to-support-the-common-core-my-questions-to-new-york-education-commissioner-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people have asked me about my brief encounter with New York Commissioner John King at the NYSCOSS Fall Leadership Summit on September 24, 2012. Here is my recollection.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor to listen to New York Education Commissioner Dr. John B. King, Jr. at the 2012 Fall Leadership Summit New York State Council of School Superintendents(NYSCOSS) in Saratoga Springs. Addressing a standing-room only audience of NY school leaders, Dr. King covered a wide range of topics from the Common Core to APPR ...]]></description>
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		<title>Doublethink: The Creativity-Testing Conflict</title>
		<link>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/08/16/doublethink-the-creativity-testing-conflict/</link>
		<comments>http://zhaolearning.com/2012/08/16/doublethink-the-creativity-testing-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>YongZhao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Education Week Online: July 17, 2012 and in Print: July 18, 2012. See also Education Week blogger Catherine A. Cardno&#8217;s interview with the me about my latest book, &#8220;Zhao on Entrepreneurship, the Common Core, and Bacon.&#8221;




Doublethink is &#8220;to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them,&#8221; according to George Orwell, who coined the phrase in his novel 1984.
American education policymakers have apparently entered the zone of doublethink.
They want future Americans to be globally competitive, to out-innovate others, and to become job-creating ...]]></description>
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