http://zhaolearning.com Creative, Entrepreneurial, and Global: 21st Century Education Thu, 16 May 2013 17:20:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-15618 Product-Oriented Learning | Simkins Says Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:38:53 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-15618 [...] Chapter 8 of World Class Learners brought back lots of memories of things I did with students over the years that would fit nicely [...] [...] Chapter 8 of World Class Learners brought back lots of memories of things I did with students over the years that would fit nicely [...]

]]> http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-15491 The Power Of The Internet – Hanging Out With Yong Zhao | There is no box Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:33:33 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-15491 [...] Zhao is author of several books about education including his latest, “World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students” and has keynoted all over the world. I saw his keynote at ISTE12 and was totally [...] [...] Zhao is author of several books about education including his latest, “World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students” and has keynoted all over the world. I saw his keynote at ISTE12 and was totally [...]

]]> http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-12941 New questions on the Common Core Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:16:04 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-12941 [...] Zhao: Very good observation but I cannot help but pointing out that Tucker just published a book entitled Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems.  If it is such a bad system, why does Tucker consider it one of the world’s leading systems and want to build American education on it? If it is so bad, what is it in Shanghai, a city of China, he wants America to surpass? And by the way, it is not true that “few wanted to change the system, because the tests were one of the few incorruptible parts of a deeply corrupt system.” Many, perhaps, most people in China, want the system changed. The Ministry of Education and provincial governments have been making changes over the past few decades (for details read my books Catching Up or Leading the Way and World Class Learners) [...] [...] Zhao: Very good observation but I cannot help but pointing out that Tucker just published a book entitled Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems.  If it is such a bad system, why does Tucker consider it one of the world’s leading systems and want to build American education on it? If it is so bad, what is it in Shanghai, a city of China, he wants America to surpass? And by the way, it is not true that “few wanted to change the system, because the tests were one of the few incorruptible parts of a deeply corrupt system.” Many, perhaps, most people in China, want the system changed. The Ministry of Education and provincial governments have been making changes over the past few decades (for details read my books Catching Up or Leading the Way and World Class Learners) [...]

]]> http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-8695 YongZhao Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:10:38 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-8695 Sorry, I will ask the publisher. Sorry, I will ask the publisher.

]]> http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-8694 Bill Seitz Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:57:52 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-8694 Why isn't there an ebook version? Why isn’t there an ebook version?

]]> http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-6737 » Remembering Steve Jobs: Education and the Empowerment of “Black-Collar Workers” Engaging Education Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:50:25 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-6737 [...] his new book World Class Learners, Yong Zhao proclaims, “Everyone needs to be entrepreneurial in the 21st [...] [...] his new book World Class Learners, Yong Zhao proclaims, “Everyone needs to be entrepreneurial in the 21st [...]

]]> http://zhaolearning.com/world-class-learners-my-new-book/comment-page-1/#comment-6347 Doublethink: The Creativity-Testing Conflict – We Know the Secrets of the Federal Reserve Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:51:25 +0000 http://zhaolearning.com/#comment-6347 [...] doing research for my book World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students, I found a significant negative relationship between PISA performance and indicators of [...] [...] doing research for my book World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students, I found a significant negative relationship between PISA performance and indicators of [...]

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