OECD: Train teachers to become education researchers
“The most successful countries educationally make teaching an attractive, high status profession, and provide training for teachers to become educational innovators and researchers who have responsibility for reform. These were among findings presented last week in New York at the International Summit on the Teaching Profession, the first of its kind, held to identify best practices for recruiting, training and supporting teachers.”
The visual rhetoric of global environmentalism vs. global corporatization.
Imagine how bad the disaster would be if the tidal surge from an early season hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico pushed the gulf oil spill onshore. Hurricane season begins June 1, and late May storms are not unusual. They usually originate in the gulf (instead of the Atlantic or Caribbean) and so give little warning.
via campaigncc.org
le tour du monde en quatre-vingts secondes
“Around the world in 80 seconds. Directed by Romain Pergeaux & Alex Profit. A project done in only 3 weeks. This route is a tribute to the famous Jules Verne’s book “Le tour du monde en 80 jours”. The making of the video, pictures of the trip and an interview of Alex Profit can be seen at http://www.tourdumonde80.fr Tour included stops in London - Cairo - Mumbay - Hong Kong - Tokyo - San Francisco - New York - London.”
Play it full screen. Worth every pixel.
