# 21CC in the news [Like us on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/harvardglobaled) and [follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/harvardglobaled) for the most updated list of news items that feature topics relevant to learning and teaching in the 21st century. Below is a list of past news items. [### How does Singapore think about technology? Going ‘at your own pace’ isn’t part of the equation ](http://hechingerreport.org/content/one-top-performing-countries-world-think-technology-going-pace-isnt-part-equation-singapore_15698/) April 27, 2014 The Hechinger Report description [### How Internet Access Can Boost The Economy And Social Equality ](http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2014/04/25/how-internet-access-can-boost-the-economy-and-social-equality/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) April 25, 2014 Forbes.com description [### Inventive Games that Teach Kids about Empathy and Social Skills ](http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/inventive-games-that-teach-kids-about-empathy-and-social-skills/) April 18, 2014 NPR/KQED Blog Mind/Shift description [### Teen Makes Genetic Discovery of Her Own Rare Cancer ](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/teen-makes-genetic-discovery-her-own-rare-cancer-n75991) April 16, 2014 NBC News description [### Raising a Moral Child ](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/opinion/sunday/raising-a-moral-child.html?_r=0) April 11, 2014 The New York Times description [### Solving China's Schools: An interview with Jiang Xueqin ](http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/apr/08/china-school-reform-jiang-xueqin/?insrc=wbll) April 08, 2014 The New York Review of Books description [### American Students Test Well in Problem Solving, but Trail Foreign Counterparts ](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/us/us-students-strong-at-problem-solving-but-trail-other-nations.html?_r=0) April 01, 2014 The New York Times description [### High School in Southern Georgia: What 'Career Technical' Education Looks Like ](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/high-school-in-southern-georgia-what-career-technical-education-looks-like/359725/) March 27, 2014 The Atlantic description [### How to Get a Job at Google ](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=0) February 22, 2014 The New York Times description [### Tufts' New 1+4 Program ](http://peterlevine.ws/?p=13360) February 20, 2014 Peter Levine's Blog for Civic Renewal description [### Educating a New Generation of Entrepreneurial Leaders ](http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/educating_a_new_generation_of_entrepreneurial_leaders) February 19, 2014 Stanford Social Innovation Review description [### Assessing 21st-Century Skills and Competencies around the World ](http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2014/02/assessing_21st_century_skills_and_competencies_around_the_world.html) February 12, 2014 Education Week description [### America's Tiniest Engineers ](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/americas-tiniest-engineers-report-from-greenville-south-carolina/283199/) January 20, 2014 The Atlantic Monthly description [### Giving Cognition a Bad Name ](http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/01/16/17rose_ep.h32.html) January 15, 2014 Education Week description [### STEM Needs a New Letter ](http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/stem-needs-a-new-letter/282973/) January 13, 2014 The Atlantic Monthly description [### Even When Test Scores Go Up, Some Cognitive Abilities Don't ](http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/even-when-test-scores-go-up-some-cognitive-abilities-dont-1211.html) December 11, 2013 MIT News description [### Asia Takes Top Spots in OECD Global Education Survey ](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/131203/asia-takes-top-spots-oecd-global-education-survey) December 03, 2013 Global Post description [### Changing Savings Habits: Can Financial Education in Grade School have Long-Term Effects? ](http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/changing_savings_habits) October 28, 2013 Fall 2012, Stanford Social Innovation Review description [### The Shanghai Secret ](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/opinion/friedman-the-shanghai-secret.html?_r=0) October 22, 2013 The New York Times description [### How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses ](http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/) October 15, 2013 Wired.com description [### Grit, Optimism and Other Buzzwords in the Way of Education ](http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanshapiro/2013/10/14/grit-optimism-and-other-buzzwords-in-the-way-of-education/) October 14, 2013 Forbes description [### The Global Search for Education: Japan ](http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/Japan%20http:/www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_3943658.html) September 17, 2013 The Huffington Post description [### Seoul Consultation Deepens Understanding of Global Citizenship Education ](http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/unescos_seoul_consultation_deepens_understanding_of_global_citizenship_education/) September 17, 2013 UNESCO description [### Can Emotional Intelligence be Taught? ](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/can-emotional-intelligence-be-taught.html) September 11, 2013 The New York Times description [### Taking a Relationship-Centered Approach to Education ](http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/11/03thigpen.h33.html) September 10, 2013 Education Week description