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How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems

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Overview

Syllabus

  • 01: The Global Challenge to Educate
  • 02: Sputnik Launches the Science-Math Race
  • 03: Education Is Life
  • 04: Evidence-Based Policy Making in Education
  • 05: What Should We Compare about Education?
  • 06: The World Learns from Horace Mann
  • 07: When Culture Invades the Classroom
  • 08: Germany and Japan's Shattered Expectations
  • 09: 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
  • By This Professor

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Alexander W. Wiseman

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