A World-class Education
Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation
Number of pages: 191
Publisher: ASCD: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
BBB Library: Education
ISBN: 9781416613749
Editorial Review
Globalization poses challenges for everyone. Every education system in the world struggles to some degree to keep up with the rapid pace of change. And countries face many similar challenges. For example, widespread internal and international migration have created more heterogeneous societies everywhere, placing new demands on educators as they respond to students and families from differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In addition, globalization also raises fundamental questions about whether the knowledge and skills needed by today’s graduates will be significantly different from those that schools have provided in the past. But there are countries around the world which are demonstrating that large-scale educational acceleration is possible, even as the educational performance has been flat for decades. Their success is not accidental, but the result of careful policy choice and effective implementation. Through combinations of national policies and leadership together with capacity building at the school level, these countries are achieving excellence in terms of student achievement, student retention, equity, and efficiency, and they are doing so at a lower cost than elsewhere. Some may argue that the experiences of countries that are significantly smaller are not relevant to a country the size of the United States, for example. But many of these countries are the size of American states and could therefore be looked at as models for state-based education systems.
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