Today’s Challenges Require Global Collaboration And Innovation

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Today’s challenges require global collaboration and innovation

By Suzanne Bouffard

Learning Forward is proud to be an international community and to work with The Learning Professional authors and readers from around the world. In this issue, we celebrate that and focus on how we can learn from each other across geographical boundaries and cultures. Often in education, we focus on which nations are on top and whether our students are at a competitive advantage or disadvantage, which can sometimes drive education policy. But in addition to learning from each other, we have a lot to learn with each other. Working together across borders, we can consider elements that are common to successful systems and how they might be expanded or adapted to other contexts. The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) regularly reviews

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Suzanne Bouffard

Senior Vice President, Communications & Publications | + posts

Suzanne Bouffard is senior vice president of communications and publications at Learning Forward. She is the editor of The Learning Professional, Learning Forward’s flagship publication. She also contributes to the Learning Forward blog and webinars. With a background in child development, she has a passion for making research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, and families. She has written for many national publications including The New York Times and the Atlantic, and previously worked as a writer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She loves working with authors to help them develop their ideas and voices for publication.