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How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems

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12 hours 22 minutes
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Discover the unique ways some countries foster student achievement-and the circumstances that cause others to fall short.

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
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Taught by

Alexander W. Wiseman

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