Giving Compass' Take:

• Getting Smart reports on how economically-advanced countries show wide chasms between learners who are globally-minded and those who are more place-based. Schools in Russia may offer answers on how to close the gaps.

• Basically, how do we prepare all students for a future that is open-ended, with many possibilities? And how do we ground those who do have many resources in thinking about specific cultures? As the author says, it's not a binary choice.

• It all starts with access. And here's where we can improve in that area around the world.

A recent trip to Moscow re-enforced one of my longtime concerns with global education.

During breaks from speaking engagements for EdCrunch 2018, I had the opportunity to visit two remarkable schools, each of which provided a perspective on a problem the field has been wrestling with for years.

That problem has been neatly defined by the British writer David Goodhart in The Road to Somewhere. Goodhart describes a dividing line in economically advanced countries between groups of people he calls “Somewheres” (people anchored in a specific place or community, usually rural, with less than optimal resources) and “Anywheres” (urban, socially liberal, and often university educated).

The “Anywheres” and their children dominate the glorious global schools I have the frequent honor to visit. They are chosen to lead the tours at Instituto Thomas Jefferson in Mexico City, at the Dalton Academy in Beijing, at the Gimnasio Los Caoboas in Bogota, and now Letovo School in Moscow.

Letovo, a private, non-profit school dedicated to educating gifted children recruited from all corners of Russia, opened just a few weeks ago with 242 students from first to 11th grades. The school buildings, classrooms, grounds, dormitories, studios, and labs should be the envy of educators and parents anywhere. The students, gracefully fluent in English, conducted an evening tour that dazzled a large group of international visitors.

Read the full article about the "anywheres" and "somewheres" of global education by David Ross at Getting Smart.