News - 3 Settembre 2020 World’s Richest Countries Grapple with Children’s Skills, Well-being and Obesity Suicide, unhappiness, obesity and poor social and academic skills have become far-too-common features of childhood in high-income countries, according to the latest Report Card issued today by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. UNICEF’s Report Card Series – now running for 20 years – uses comparable national data to rank EU and OECD countries […]
Lifestyles - 8 Giugno 2020 Online Education During the Coronavirus Pandemic: How Well Is It Working? “Some teachers were already using technology with their classes and students had district-issued devices, but for the younger elementary classes that were not using online tools, the transition was very difficult. The teachers were not given very much warning. Had they known that when they left school on Friday, March 13th, they would be teaching from home for the rest of the year, they would have prepared students and taught them how to use these tools with appropriately paced lessons. But this is what teachers do, we do not compete with one another; we help each other and support each other because we all want the best for the kids.”
News - 27 Dicembre 2019 Italy’s Education Minister Resigns: the “Elephant in the Room” Is Now Exposed Mr. Fioramonti’s move not only represents the last headache for the Italian government, hurriedly established by the Democratic Party and the populist Five Stars Movement at the end of the summer, it was also the umpteenth, dramatic wake-up call for the sector of public education, severely wounded by major spending cuts over the last few decades. The Minister had already announced in advance his intention to leave office unless the Government allocated at least 3 billion euros to the school sector. And because this target—that Mr. Fioramonti defined as the “waterline”—wasn’t met, that threat eventually became a reality.
Lingua Italiana - 14 Novembre 2019 Brooklyn College Cancels the Major and Minor in the Italian Language Program Letter from Prof. Fred Gardaphe to protest CUNY- Brooklyn College's recent action deactivating the major and minor specializations and greatly reducing the courses offered in Italian:
English - 31 Ottobre 2019 Entrepreneurialism, Positive Education and Keeping Up With Technology The Global Happiness Council argues that to expand the spaces of freedom we need schools that activate positive education interventions – that is, a range of educational programs that train primary school children and secondary school students “to engage in a variety of activities and exercises”. Entrepreneurialism contributes a great deal to ushering in a new era of education…
New York - 14 Settembre 2019 Columbus Day: It Takes a Village to Make It Happen, but What Is It Really About? The Parade itself is merely the climax to a weekend of activities. The entire month of September is a blur of frenetic movement…The tremendous crowd of supporters waving their Italian and American flags will not be thinking of the Columbus Citizens Foundation’s mission, which entails a lot more than organizing this astounding Parade every year. The Columbus Day Parade is not only about a visionary’s hope of a free world, but about a community of immigrants, its role in building America, and the transmission of its heritage.
U.N. - 20 Agosto 2019 United Nation’s Secretary-General cautions, “We are facing a learning crisis.” Aside from its accessibility and inclusivity, education is fighting to stay relevant as the world experiences its fourth industrial revolution. The Secretary-General recognized this issue in his message as well, calling it a “learning crisis.” The UN chief explained that “schools are not equipping young people with the skills they need to navigate the technological revolution,” stressing that, “Students need not just to learn, but to learn how to learn.”
People - 29 Maggio 2019 Katia Passerini: An Italian Woman at the Top of a University Career in the US How a student from Rome arrived in the United States to finish a thesis and in her forties found herself at the top of her university career in America: in this interview Katia Passerini explains the organization of the American academic system based on the connection with the job market, while "the difficulty of the Italian system lies in transferring the important amount of knowledge into a practical and professional outlet ".
Lifestyles - 20 Marzo 2019 Speaking the Language of Business: A New Degree at Montclair State Univ. For a country like Italy, which according to ICE figures brings as much as 8.9% of its export market overseas towards the United States, the creation of these innovative educational programs is a brilliant validation of international appeal. Beyond that, they simply represent an effective hands-on way for adventurous individuals to integrate cultural, educational, economic, and societal factors across borders. In this interview Prof. Enza Antenos tells us all about it.
Lifestyles - 21 Dicembre 2018 How Would Mary Poppins Respond to the Problems of U.S. Education System? Lauren LoGiudice, a NYC actor, comedian, and character chameleon, uses comedy to give you a buoy in the storm. This new series, appearing daily for the next two weeks on LoGiudice’s Instagram channel @laurenlogi, follows Mary Poppins as she encounters the problems of our education system