A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation

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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 count.;Foreword; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Viewing Education in the United States Through the Prism of PISA; Chapter 3 -- Ontario, Canada: Reform to Support High Achievement in a Diverse Context; Chapter 4 -- Shanghai and Hong Kong: Two Distinct Examples of Education Reform in China; Chapter 5 -- inland: Slow and Steady Reformfor Consistently High Results; Chapter 6 -- Japan:A Story of Sustained Excellence; Chapter 7 -- Singapore: Rapid Improvement Followed by Strong Performance; Chapter 8 -- Brazil: Encouraging Lessons from a Large Federal System.