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Expanding Secondary Education in India
Modernizing Curriculum and Instruction Determining the quality of the Indian secondary education system is difficult. Because each Indian state examination board sets its own curricula and examinations, there are no national data based on common standards. [...]with three national board exams and 38 state board exams at the secondary level, interstate comparisons of achievement are almost impossible. [...]the kinds of skills that secondary schools need to provide are changing rapidly. In urban areas and some states, such schools account for most of the increase in secondary enrollments. [...]India is in the thick of international debates about the merits of public versus private financing and management of schools and about various \"choice\" and public/partnership schemes.
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A world-class education
Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing, innovation-based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart focuses on understanding what the world's best school systems are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools--at the national, state, and local level--might do differently and better.
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A World-Class Education
In the 20th century, the United States was the world leader in education-the first country to achieve universal secondary education and the first to expand higher education beyond the elite class. Now other countries are catching up and leaping ahead-in high school graduation rates, in the quality and equity of their K-12 education systems, and in the proportion of students graduating from college. It is not that American education has gotten worse so much that education in other parts of the world has gotten so much better, so fast.Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing and increasingly borderless and innovation-based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart is not about casting blame; it is about understanding what the best school systems in the world are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools-at the national, state, and local level-might do differently and better. Here, you'll consider:How the U.S. education system fares against emerging international standards of excellence.The policies, practices, and priorities of the world's best-performing systems, along with specific ideas for adapting these approaches for U.S. schools.The common factors characteristic of high-performing and rapidly improving systems.New models of 21st century teaching and leadership and ways to modernize curriculum, instruction, and assessment.How technology and international exchange can help the United States close performance gaps and reach new levels of excellence and equity.Learning goes both ways, Stewart writes. Other countries have learned a great deal from the United States, and now it is time for American educators to open their eyes to other nations' globally-minded and future-focused practices, leverage existing assets, and create a truly world-class education system for this generation of students and generations to come.
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Improving Teacher Quality around the World
Representatives of 16 nations with high-performing or rapidly improving school systems met in New York in March for the first International Summit on the Teaching Profession. The purpose was to stimulate a global conversation about how best to improve the quality of teachers and teaching. The countries all faced certain challenges, including recruiting and preparing high-quality teachers, evaluating them, and providing optimal professional development interests. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Survey Shows Rise of Asia
The top scorers in all three subjects on the PISA international assessments were Asian nations. These countries are outscoring others because of several qualities they have in common, including: a commitment to the centrality of education for driving economic growth, clear rigorous standards and aligned systems, high-quality teachers and principals, investment of resources where they make a difference, time and effort, and learning systems with a global orientation. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Education Goes Digital and Global
While the developed countries still are trying to find the best way to integrate technology into schools, developing countries are relying on technology to educate many of their school-age people. Examples from India, China, and Korea, as well as international education projects, are changing the basic design of education around the world. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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GLOBAL VOICES IN ASIA: Singapore Leads the Way in Changing Teacher Education
In the past 40 years, the Singapore education system has evolved from one with low performance to one that is considered world class. Now it is working to improve even more in order to produce students with the skills needed for the 21st century. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Dream, Design, Deliver: How Singapore Developed a High-Quality Teacher Force
Like every other profession in Singapore, teachers' performances are appraised annually by a number of people and on multiple measures, including their contribution to the academic and character development of all students in their charge, their collaboration with parents and community groups, and their contributions to their colleagues and the school as a whole. [...] a committee of the National Institute of Education released a report in 2009, A Teacher Education for the 21st Century, which outlines how teacher training will be redesigned to further strengthen the skills and knowledge of teachers to promote new kinds of learning to meet these goals.
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