Guest Post: Thomas Friedman on Competition, Common Core, and the Surge of MOOCs
EWA's 66th National Seminar, held at Stanford University, took place in May. We asked some of the journalists attending to contribute posts from the sessions. The majority of the content will soon be available at EdMedia Commons. You can watch the video of Thomas Friedman's conversation with EWA president (and Wall Street Journal education reporter) Stephanie Banchero here. Patrick O'Donnell of the Cleveland Plain Dealer is today's guest blogger.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman doesn’t write about education, as such. He writes about power and about changes on a global level.
But he told the audience at EWA’s National Seminar that education is just a few simple steps away from his focus. Here’s how: A key force in global power is economic growth, he said. And a key driver of economic growth is education.
“Traveling around the world, education is the biggest foreign policy issue,” he said.
In the “hyper-connected” world we have today, he said, everyone is competing against everyone else in the world.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman doesn’t write about education, as such. He writes about power and about changes on a global level.
But he told the audience at EWA’s National Seminar that education is just a few simple steps away from his focus. Here’s how: A key force in global power is economic growth, he said. And a key driver of economic growth is education.
“Traveling around the world, education is the biggest foreign policy issue,” he said.
In the “hyper-connected” world we have today, he said, everyone is competing against everyone else in the world.
