Courtney Ross and Education
With improvement in education as her prime focus, Courtney Sale Ross has been a leader in the field for 16 years. She has long embraced the dual mission of advancing the study of globalization as it affects education and being a vehicle for change in international public education. She and her late husband, Steve Ross, founded Ross School in 1991.
The school was formed by a committee of international scholars in the fields of mathematics, cultural history, psychology, engineering, anthropology, neuroscience, literature and economics. Ross School serves as a venue for educational research and development; it is a place where research and practice are linked. Ross School presently serves 500+ children from kindergarten through grade 12. In 2006, < a href=”http://www.rossglobalacademy.org/”>Courtney Sale Ross opened a public charter school in New York City, Ross Global Academy, in collaboration with New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education and New York City’s Board of Education.
Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education is a means for international research. It promotes the study of globalization and education, interdisciplinary curriculum for cultural awareness, scaling up of groundbreaking mind, brain and education, media messages and technology education, well-being, and nutrition and teacher training.
In association with the University of California Press, Ross Institute co-published Globalization: Education and Culture in the next generation, and more lately co-published Learning in the Global Era. Through Ross Institute’s Inter-University Consortium, university graduate schools of education use Ross School as a laboratory, thereby helping public educators work with those belonging to under served areas.
