Author Archives: Fred Mednick
Outside My Window
As a high-school principal in the 80s and 90s, I sought a global perspective on issues of education, childhood, the …
My Classroom and Global Emergencies
We hear often that teachers don’t have enough time to accomplish what they want their students go learn. Why burden …
Girls Earthquake Science and Safety Initiative
education from below the ground and up Dense populations. Poorly-constructed buildings. High seismic vulnerability. These are the ingredients of a …
Time is Not On Our Side
Although the sun had barely risen, the road from Port Harcourt to Calabar, Nigeria was already a pinball machine of …
38 Teachers, 20 Advisors, 35 Schools, Thousands of Children: Science Inquiry Teaching Methods in China
I see it all the time in kindergartens through graduate school. You enter a room and settle automatically and unconsciously …
Global Education on World Teachers’ Day
East Baltimore Community School students meet teachers from China, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and China Johns Hopkins University School of Education East …
World Teachers Day – October 5th
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe — H.G. Wells Today, October 5th, is World …
Chapter 1: Founder Eludes Death
You have to travel a good distance from the Johannesburg airport before you get a real sense of where you …
Chapter 2: Nacho Man
Formerly the things which happened in the world had no connection among themselves…But since then all events are united in …