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SCARSDALE, N.Y. Scarsdale Middle School hosted an Australian visitor Tuesday. Lynn Thompson, Scarsdales Global Research Project partner from Perth, was in the village to tour the Scarsdale schools.
Michael McGill, the superintendent, Lynne Shain, assistant superintendent, and Middle School Principal Michael McDermott were among those attending a program given by the Social Studies department and coordinated by Deb Sawch of the Teachers College at Columbia University at the districts middle school.
We initiated the Global Research Project last year and we got Columbia to do the field work, McGill said.
The project has international partners in Singapore, Finland, Shanghai and Toronto, as well as Australia, he said.
Weve created a real and virtual network of high-performing schools to study ways to improve, he said.
Shain was scheduled to deliver a report at Tuesday Nights School Board meeting on finding ways to quantify Scarsdales approach to education, which, she has said, cannot necessarily be measured by existing standardized tests. Shain summed up the situation with a favorite quote from Albert Einstein: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
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