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Abdourahamane Diallo, an FWE Young Leader, has been named to the NYC Bronx Power List 2022.
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Abdourahamane Diallo, an FWE Young Leader, has been named to the NYC Bronx Power List 2022.

December 28, 2022
Diallo has been recognized as one of the Bronx's most influential and powerful people. The Bronx Power List recognizes your ongoing commitment, impact, and influence as one of the borough's most influential movers and shakers. Diallo is a trained economist and geopolitical strategist. He currently works as a geopolitical and...
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Big picture thinking How to educate the whole person for an interconnected world Principles and practices
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Big picture thinking How to educate the whole person for an interconnected world Principles and practices

March 2, 2022
Programme for International Student Assessment Veronica Boix Mansilla Andreas Schleicher © OECD 2022 Introduction Globalisation and digitalisation have connected people, cities, countries and continents in ways that vastly increase our individual and collective potential. But the same forces have also made the world more volatile, more complex, more uncertain and...
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How Learning Continued during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Global Lessons from Initiatives to Support Learners and Teachers
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How Learning Continued during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Global Lessons from Initiatives to Support Learners and Teachers

February 3, 2022
This report brings together 45 of the education continuity stories that were jointly documented by the OECD, the World Bank, Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative and HundrED during the first wave of school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers a variety of different examples on how governments and...
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UNESCO-Fazheng: Best practices in mobile learning
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UNESCO-Fazheng: Best practices in mobile learning

January 10, 2022
UNESCO-Fazheng project case studies (As one of the main founding organisations, Fazheng Group presents these articles: https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education/mobile-learning/fazheng/case-studies) There are two types of case study: top-down mobile learning initiatives attempted by governments and ministries of education grass root (bottom-up) initiatives implemented in schools The following were selected for inclusion in the...
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FWE Backgrounder
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FWE Backgrounder

December 2, 2021
Two years ago, when Jack Ma, co-founder and former chairman of the multinational Alibaba Group, made that pronouncement at the launch of the Forum for World Education (FWE) in Paris, no one knew the COVID pandemic would soon close schools for 1.5 billion students around the globe and make formal...
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OECD Webinar Friday 3 December at 13:00 (Paris time) – To play or to learn? Five-year-olds tell us what matters most
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OECD Webinar Friday 3 December at 13:00 (Paris time) – To play or to learn? Five-year-olds tell us what matters most

November 30, 2021
  OECD Education & Skills Webinar Series - Q&A Webinar About this webinar The OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study asked over 4 500 five-year-olds what they liked best about their kindergarten or school. Almost all children gave very specific answers, and many explained the reasoning behind their...
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Calling for a New Approach to Building 21st Workforces: It’s About Skills Development, Not Education Attainment, Argue Experts Convened by the Forum for World Education
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Calling for a New Approach to Building 21st Workforces: It’s About Skills Development, Not Education Attainment, Argue Experts Convened by the Forum for World Education

October 16, 2021
  Calling for a New Approach to Building 21st Workforces: It’s About Skills Development, Not Education Attainment, Argue Experts Convened by the Forum for World Education As wealthy and developing nations alike seek to create workforces geared to 21st century opportunities and challenges, they are devoting intense effort to ensuring...
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Professor Eric Hanushek awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize – the world’s highest education accolade
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Professor Eric Hanushek awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize – the world’s highest education accolade

October 2, 2021
  HONG KONG, Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji have been awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize, the world's highest education accolade, in recognition of their ground-breaking work addressing a crucial piece of the education puzzle: improving quality of education and outcomes for learners at scale. Following a rigorous...
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Beijing Royal School 25th Anniversary & 6th Integrate to Innovate International Education Forum
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Beijing Royal School 25th Anniversary & 6th Integrate to Innovate International Education Forum

September 27, 2021
  On behalf of Fazheng Group/Beijing Royal School, we warmly invite you as our most valued guests to watch the Live Stream of Beijing Royal School 25th Anniversary & 6th Integrate to Innovate International Education Forum, which will be held on Tuesday 9:30am 28th Sep Beijing Time (Monday 21:30 27th Sep...
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Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education (ALiTE) International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship
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Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education (ALiTE) International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship

September 15, 2021
The Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) proudly presents the Distinguished Lecture of the Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education  (ALiTE)  International  Webinar  Series  for  Exemplary  Scholarship on “Educating Learners for Their Future – Not Our Past”, sponsored by the Tin Ka Ping Education Fund of the...
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To Shoulder the Responsibility of A New Era: Commencement of the Class of 2021 Held at Beijing Royal School
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To Shoulder the Responsibility of A New Era: Commencement of the Class of 2021 Held at Beijing Royal School

June 16, 2021
On May 28, Beijing Royal School honored the Class of 2021 with a grand commencement ceremony. The ceremony displayed the BRS pride in all graduates who demonstrated amazing tenacity and resilience in challenging times, and received offers from a wide range of prestigious universities and colleges around the world. The...
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OECD – Transitioning into an uncertain future
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OECD – Transitioning into an uncertain future

May 19, 2021
G20 EdWG by Andreas Schleicher
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Announcement: The Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation (open-source *free* journal)
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Announcement: The Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation (open-source *free* journal)

April 15, 2021
The Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语季刊 | 教育测量与评估双语季刊 is published in Chinese and English and is cosponsored by National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and Beijing Normal University (BNU). The Chinese/English Journal of Educational Measurement and Evaluation | 教育测量与评估双语季刊publishes original empirical articles which present new approaches to educational measurement and evaluation,...
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Two-day virtual event hosted by our collaborator, ETS – The cognitive and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational outcomes.
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Two-day virtual event hosted by our collaborator, ETS – The cognitive and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational outcomes.

April 12, 2021
FWE is pleased to share the link below for a two-day virtual event hosted by our collaborator, ETS. These online panel discussions will examine the cognitive and emotional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational outcomes, and delve into how it has influenced student learning and critical assessments. April 20,...
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FWE congratulates Planning Committee member, Randy Bennett on receiving AERA’s prestigious Lindquist Award
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FWE congratulates Planning Committee member, Randy Bennett on receiving AERA’s prestigious Lindquist Award

April 8, 2021
2020 Award Recipient Randy E. Bennett Educational Testing Service Dr. Randy Bennett holds the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation at the Educational Testing Service.  During much of his career at ETS, Dr. Bennett has worked on applying insights from cognitive psychology to improving educational assessment with a special emphasis on...
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Webinar on New Administration: What’s the Next Step for Sino-US Education Cooperation?
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Webinar on New Administration: What’s the Next Step for Sino-US Education Cooperation?

January 15, 2021
Under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has experienced a year of deep uncertainty, profound changes, and major disruption. The Sino-US relations have encountered great difficulties. In the New Year with the new US government coming to power, regarding the education policy, will there be any change for...
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Forum for World Education and ETS Announce Collaboration to Support Education Agencies Worldwide
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Forum for World Education and ETS Announce Collaboration to Support Education Agencies Worldwide

January 6, 2021
The Forum for World Education (FWE) and ETS (Educational Testing Service) have agreed to collaborate to bring ETS’s unique blend of expertise in assessment, research, and analysis to support education agencies around the world. Working with FWE, ETS will assist education ministries and their affiliated examination agencies in using advances...
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UPenn pledges $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia
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UPenn pledges $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia

January 6, 2021
Congratulations to University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, School Board President Joyce Wilkerson, and Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia William R. Hite Jr., on their announcement today that Penn will contribute $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia, representing an unprecedented commitment to...
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Fazheng Group’s 2020 Integrate to Innovate Forum
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Fazheng Group’s 2020 Integrate to Innovate Forum

January 6, 2021
The Integrate to Innovate Education Forum is an international education event initiated by Fazheng Group with the support of China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) and the Ministry of Education’s National Center for School Curriculum and Textbook Development. It has been held annually since 2016. Adhering to the concept...
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Educational Assessment: What to Watch in a Rapidly Changing World
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Educational Assessment: What to Watch in a Rapidly Changing World

January 6, 2021
This article is a written adaptation of the Presidential address I gave at the NCME annual conference in April 2018. The article describes my thoughts on the future of assessment. I discuss eleven likely characteristics of future tests and, for each characteristic, why I think it is important and what...
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