The World's Highest-Scoring Students: How Their Nations Led Them to Excellence

ISBN-13: 9781433151422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 186 str.

Hani Morgan

Opis

The World's Highest-Scoring Students focuses on how various countries transformed their school systems into the world's leading systems of education.

Spis treści

Thomas V. O'Brien: Introduction by - Why It's Crucial to Learn from World-Class Nations in Education - Education in Finland: The Closest We Can Get to a Utopian System - From a Third-World to a First-World Nation: Education in Singapore Made It Happen - Japan: Always on Top in Education - High Test Scores Come at a High Price: Education in South Korea - China's Success in Education: Is This Nation Really That Good? - Learning from Canada: A Top-Performing Country Similar to the United States - Estonia: A New World Leader in International Testing - From Excellence to Mediocrity: The Decline of the Education System in the United States - A Plan for a Better Educational System - Index.

O autorze

Hani Morgan is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his M.A. and M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ed.D. from Rutgers University. He is the co-editor of The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods.