LCI to Join WNET Celebration of Teaching & Learning on March 16

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In three weeks, more than 10,000 North American educators will converge on the Hilton New York for WNET’s seventh annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning. The Celebration is a major professional development conference that includes over 40 featured speakers and 100 interactive workshops, as well as two exhibition halls full of education resources. This year, [...]

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Wallace Foundation Funds Arts Education in Boston

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Guess the last word of this sentence: “Arts education in Boston is being _____.” Recent news from around the nation might have led you to say “cut,” but the right answer, happily, is “expanded.” The city has just announced that the Wallace Foundation will donate $4 million over four years to grow Boston’s Arts Expansion [...]

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Disney Funds Creative Education in China

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Disney is at it again. In 2011, The Walt Disney Company co-sponsored America’s Imagination Summit, the major education event that Lincoln Center Institute held here in New York City. Now Disney has announced that it will donate $1.6 million to support the United Nations Children’s Fund and China’s Ministry of Education, as they work to [...]

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Story Starters—A Deck of Cards for the Young Imagination

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In our book Imagination First, Eric Liu and I write about Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards created by musician Brian Eno in 1975: “Each of the over one hundred cards contains what Eno calls ‘a worthwhile dilemma’—a concise, cryptic prompt….meant to give direction.” Today, I bring news of another novel deck of cards, this [...]

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Changes in the Education Systems of East Asian Countries Look to the West

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Christopher St. Clair

Success carries its own need for change Since World War II, East Asia has had the fastest-growing economy in the world. Japan was rapidly joined by China, Singapore, South Korea, and other nations seemingly swept along by each other’s successes in the marketplace. From the beginning of its post-war ascent, East Asia has made education [...]

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Boy Scouts of America and Edison Nation® Announce Innovation Challenge

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

One of the most tradition-based organizations in the country, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), is getting into the innovation act. Today it announced, in partnership with product developer Edison Nation®, the BSA Innovation Challenge. This represents yet another opportunity for our children to put their imagination and creativity to work—and be rewarded for the [...]

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