Ross Institute January 30, 2009
Posted in : College Education, Kiddie Stuff, Radicals and Others , trackbackThe Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education was founded in 1996. It was established to promote understanding of the ramifications of globalization for pre-collegiate learning. The Ross Institute serves to unite leading scholars, policy makers, and educators in order to develop innovative ideas and to spur educational change.
From the time of its creation, the Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education has been focused on basic research, dissemination, and evaluation in the advancement of its “Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Cultural Understanding,” as well as on the changes needed for students to prepare for world that is becoming more globalized.
The Ross Institute for Advanced Study of Innovation in Education networks researchers and institutions from all over the globe who are conceptualizing innovations in the education field in research areas that the Institute is interested in. It facilitates the dissemination of emerging findings and best practices by supporting and aiding conferences, distributed professional development, and publications and multi-media distribution.
Along with the Ross Lab School, the Ross Institute is searching for university partners to coordinate with to alter education in a truly worldwide effort. In light of this, the Institute has developed the Ross Model, a globally-focused, interdisciplinary mode of instruction formed to harmonize differences in students’ ways of assimilation, promote inter-cultural unity, and open them to emerging technologies.
Tensta Gymnasium, a public school in Sweden, was one of the first institutions to use the Ross Model. Ever since its adoption of the model, its enrollment rates have soared.
Check out the Forbes profile on Courtney Ross.
Courtney Ross is the founder of the Ross Institute.Learn more about the Ross School, the Ross Institute, and the Ross Global Academy at the personal site of Courtney Ross.
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