How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems

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Author(s): Alexander W. Wiseman
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Year: 2015

Language: English
Tags: Education,Comparative Education

Cover
Copyright
Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
1. The Global Challenge to Educate
2. Sputnik Launches the Science-Math Race
3. Education Is Life
4. Evidence-Based Policy Making in Education
5. What Should We Compare about Education?
6. The World Learns from Horace Mann
7. When Culture Invades the Classroom
8. Germany and Japan’s Shattered Expectations
9. Borrowing Foreign School Cultures
10. The Value in Linking School to Jobs
11. Why Blame the Teacher?
12. Gender Pipeline Lifts Equality Dream
13. Gulf Schools: The Non-National Advantage
14. Who Is Accountable for Education?
15. How Parents Shape Student Outcomes
16. Reading, Writing, and Religion
17. International Test Scores: All and Nothing
18. Turning a Good Teacher into a Great One
19. The Foundations of Civil Society
20. From National Student to Global Citizen
21. The Problem with Teaching’s Best Practices
22. A School inside Your Phone?
23. The Rich-and-Poor Learning Cycle
24. How to Fix Education: Heart, Head, Hands
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