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Video: Sir Ken Robinson, what’s in the school of your dreams?

Posted by: Tedstaff

Watch as four student reporters hand Sir Ken Robinson a “blank check” and say: Design a learning place of your dreams. It’s a three-part video series — and definitely do watch through to Part 3, where things get a little bit silly.

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TED Weekends reimagines educationTED Weekends reimagines education

Posted By Shirin Samimi-Moore

At TED2013, Sugata Mitra accepted the TED Prize for 2013 with a striking talk. His wish: for children to learn about any variety of subjects through self-organized learning. While this bold project will take form with a “School in the Cloud” in India, Mitra encourages members of our community to help with a global paradigm change […]

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4 surprising lessons about education learned from data collected around the world4 surprising lessons about education learned from data collected around the world

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

Education is generally thought of as a domestic policy issue. But what can we learn by looking at education on the global scale? In today’s talk, given at TEDGlobal 2012, Andreas Schleicher introduces us to a test that measures school systems and student achievement in countries across the globe—PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment), […]

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