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
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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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