Surpassing Shanghai (eBook)

An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems

Marc S. Tucker (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
288 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-457-5 (ISBN)

Infos

With many countries ranked higher than the U.S. in primary education, now is the time to reassess current norms and investigate how the U.S. can revitalize its education. Surpassing Shanghai provides much-needed strategies for raising the bar in the U.S.

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This book answers a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the aim was to take advantage of everything that has been learned by countries with the world's best education systems?With a growing number of countries outperforming the United States on the most respected comparisons of student achievementand spending less on education per studentthis question is critical.Surpassing Shanghai looks in depth at the education systems that are leading the world in student performance to find out what strategies are working and how they might apply to the United States. Developed from the work of the National Center on Education and the Economy, which has been researching the education systems of countries with the highest student performance for more than twenty years, this book provides a series of answers to the question of how the United States can compete with the world's best.

Autor

Marc S. Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, where he created the National Institute for School Leadership, America’s Choice, and the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2011
• Vorwort: Linda Darling-Hammond
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • american education system • Charter Schools • Educational challenges • Educational change • School reform • Student achievement • United States Public Education System
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-457-4 / 1612504574
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-457-5 / 9781612504575