14
JAN
2015

From Student to Teacher: The Rise of Singapore Education (Huffington Post)

How did they do it? How did an island nation of five million people become one of the elite education systems on the planet? What is their secret, their special formula? What is the Singapore story? Singapore’s meteoric rise as an education power has been nothing less than remarkable.
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12
NOV
2014

The Common Core Standards: A Matter of One Nation (Huffington Post)

‘We the people… in order to form a more perfect union…’ There have been statements made throughout the history of the United States of America that have served in defining a nation bound together by certain beliefs, ideals, that forged a pathway, a blueprint for what it means to be fr
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12
NOV
2014

Success in the 21st Century: Does Matter Still Matter? (CEO Magazine)

  No regrets. Living one’s purpose. Leaving the world better than you found it. Being versus doing. Are we prepared for what’s coming – what has already arrived? As a CEO, an entrepreneur, one who has traversed the planet time and again, I have found my life evolving in terms of
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05
SEP
2014

Why Asian Education Is Better, and Why It Is Not (Huffington Post)

Everywhere I go these days it seems I’m faced with the same question: what is wrong with America’s education system? The query is usually followed with a defining statement that Asian students are ‘kicking our butts’ on the international exams. The good news is, at least people in Ame
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14
AUG
2014

Education, Education, Education and the Role We Play in Its Unfolding (Huffington Post)

My daughter was five years old when she turned to her favorite stuffed animal during one of my many moments of distraction via the telephone and expressed with a veracity that only finds itself when we are present with the moment, “Education! Education! Education! All my daddy ever ta
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