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Lessons from PISA for the United States.
- Title
- Lessons from PISA for the United States.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD, ©2011.
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- Description
- 256 p. : col. ill., 1 col. map; 27 cm.
- Summary
- US President Obama has launched one of the world's most ambitious education reform agendas. Under the heading "Race to the Top", this agenda encourages US states to adopt internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace: recruit, develop, reward, and retain effective teachers and principals; build data systems that measure student success; and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practices and turn around their lowest-performing schools. But what does the "top" look like internationally? How have the countries at the top managed to achieve sustained high performance or to significantly improve their performance? This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy from their reform trajectories.--Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Strong performers and successful reformers in education, 2220-363X
- Uniform Title
- Strong performers and successful reformers in education.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Full text also available online to subscribers at
- Contents
- Introduction -- Viewing education in the United States through the prism of PISA -- Ontario, Canada : reform to support high achievement in a diverse context -- Shanghai and Hong Kong : two district examples of education reform in China -- Finland : slow and steady reform for consistently high results -- Japan : a story of sustained excellence -- Singapore : rapid improvement followed by strong performance -- Brazil : encouraging lessons from a large federal system -- Germany : once weak international standing prompts strong nationwide reforms for rapid improvement -- Vignettes on education reforms : England and Poland -- Lessons for the United States.
- Call Number
- JBF 11-603
- ISBN
- 9789264096653 (print)
- 9264096655 (print)
- 9789264096660 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9264096663 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 740441740
- Title
- Lessons from PISA for the United States.
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD, ©2011.
- Series
- Strong performers and successful reformers in education, 2220-363XStrong performers and successful reformers in education.
- Additional Formats
- Full text also available online to subscribers at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264096660-en
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- OECD Directorate for Education. Indicators and Analysis Division.Programme for International Student Assessment.Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Research Call Number
- JBF 11-603