Texas and Singapore connection with education
Connection of Texas and Singapore via Education :
Singapore is a case study in nation-building over a 50-year span, a short enough time period that its architects lived to see the results of their vision and labors. That’s one reason Singapore was an ideal, if distant, destination for the group of Texas public school educators and supporters who traveled there as part of an Austin-based Educate Texas learning mission.(https://www.edtx.org/)
Educate Texas is a public-private partnership whose goal is “strengthening the public education system so that every Texas student is prepared for success in school, in the workforce, and in life.” The organization counts as its partners some of the nation’s most important foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Ford Foundation, but it also partners with the Office of the Governor, the Texas Legislature, and the Texas Education Agency, the very entities that would have to support any major changes in Texas public school funding and oversight.
The Educate Texas group’s expenses were underwritten with funds provided by Charles Butt, Chairman and CEO of H-E-B, the state’s biggest individual advocate and corporate supporter of public education.
“We were fortunate to assemble a stellar group of Texas leaders who were able to learn about the drivers and environment that have led to Singapore’s impressive academic gains over the past 50 years,” said George Tang, managing director of Educate Texas. “Through conversations and visits with leaders throughout Singapore’s educational system, we were impressed by their strategic and purposeful design of their systems to support the country’s economic growth.”
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