Educational policy innovations : levelling up and sustaining educational achievement
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Educational policy innovations : levelling up and sustaining educational achievement
(Springer education innovation book series)
Springer, c2014
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume presents how high performing education systems over the world are constantly innovating their educational policies to nurture their citizens for the challenges of the future economy and the anticipation of the unknown. This volume includes a state-of-the-art review of the literature in this field, several commissioned focal chapters focusing on the distinctive case of Singapore and internationally commissioned chapters of several other accomplished education systems around the world. A comparative study of Singapore against other high performing education systems is included to provide greater insights to the possible applications to other education systems.
Table of Contents
Series Editors' Foreword
Foreword by Dennis Shirley
Chapter 1 Introduction: Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement
Sing Kong LEE, Wing On LEE, Ee Ling LOW and Jocelyn Shi Yah TAN
Chapter 2 How Useful Are the Experiences of the High Performing Education Systems?
Wing On LEE, Ee Ling LOW and Sing Kong LEE
Chapter 3 Developing Educational Policies in a Holistic Skills Framework
Andreas SCHLEICHER
Chapter 4 Conceptualising Teacher Preparation for Educational Innovation: Singapore's Approach
Sing Kong LEE and Ee Ling LOW
Chapter 5 Singapore's Performance in PISA: Levelling Up the Long Tail
Laik Woon TEH
Chapter 6 Singapore's English Language Policy and Language Teacher Education: A Foundation for its Educational Success
Ee Ling LOW
Chapter 7 Purposeful Policy and Practice for Equity and Quality - A Finnish Case
Hannele NIEMI
Chapter 8 The Light and Shadow of Educational Achievement in South Korea with Suggestions for Levelling Up
Youngdal CHO
Chapter 9 Effective Teachers for Successful Schools and High Performing Students: The Case of Shanghai
Minxuan ZHANG, Junjie XU and Chuangyuan SUN
Chapter 10 Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement: The Case of Hong Kong
Esther Sui Chu HO
Chapter 11 Perspectives on High Performing Education Systems in Finland, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Singapore: What Lessons for the U.S.?
Lin GOODWIN
Chapter 12 Sustainable, Large-scale Education Renewal: The Case of Ontario
Ben LEVIN
Chapter 13 Comparative Analysis of High Performing Education Systems: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education as Factors of Success
Wing On LEE
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