International Summit on the Teaching Profession

Pres. Dennis Van Roekel

This week Dennis Wholey speaks with Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association about the successes and challenges seen in education today and the steps being taken to move the country forward.

Lessons From The World

This week’s program explores the important lessons that we learned throughout 2012 by visiting a variety of interviews from the past year. Past guests from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and the United States all explain interesting aspects of their respective cultures and weigh in on the most crucial concerns of the day. Guests include Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan; Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong; Former Ambassador to the United States from Kazakhstan and current Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Erlan Idrissov; Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and many more.

International Summit on the Teaching Profession Part III

International Summit on the Teaching Profession Part III

This week Dennis Wholey travels to the International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City to speak with leaders in education from around the world. Guests include Hekia Parata, Minister of Education from New Zealand; Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association; Mark Nieker, President & CEO of the Pearson Foundation and Jerry Weast, Founder & CEO of the Partnership for Deliberate Excellence. Conversations explore the significance of the Summit as well as how various countries approach education and what the world can learn from their success.

International Summit on the Teaching Profession Part II

International Summit on the Teaching Profession Part II

This week Dennis Wholey travels to the International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City to speak with leaders in education from around the world. Guests include Tapio Kosunen, State Secretary of the Ministry of Education from Finland; Ron Thorpe, President and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; Cheryl Williams, Executive Director of the Learning First Alliance and Angelo Gavrielatos, Federal President of the Australian Education Union. Conversations explore the significance of the Summit, as well as how various countries approach education and what the world can learn from their success.

International Summit on the Teaching Profession Pt I

International Summit on the Teaching Profession Part I
This week Dennis Wholey travels to the International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City to speak with U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan; Minister of Education from Singapore, Heng Swee Keat and John Bangs of Education International. Conversations explore the significance of the Summit as well as how various countries approach education and what the world can learn from their success. This is the first of three programs on the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.