Discover the unique ways some countries foster student achievement-and the circumstances that cause others to fall short.
How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Global Challenge to Educate
- 02: Sputnik Launches the Science-Math Race
- 03: Education Is Life
- 04: Evidence-Based Policy Making in Education
- 05: What Should We Compare about Education?
- 06: The World Learns from Horace Mann
- 07: When Culture Invades the Classroom
- 08: Germany and Japan's Shattered Expectations
- 09: Borrowing Foreign School Cultures
- 10: The Value in Linking School to Jobs
- 11: Why Blame the Teacher?
- 12: Gender Pipeline Lifts Equality Dream
- 13: Gulf Schools: The Non-National Advantage
- 14: Who Is Accountable for Education?
- 15: How Parents Shape Student Outcomes
- 16: Reading, Writing, and Religion
- 17: International Test Scores: All and Nothing
- 18: Turning a Good Teacher into a Great One
- 19: The Foundations of Civil Society
- 20: From National Student to Global Citizen
- 21: The Problem with Teaching's Best Practices
- 22: A School inside Your Phone?
- 23: The Rich-and-Poor Learning Cycle
- 24: How to Fix Education: Heart, Head, Hands
Taught by
Alexander W. Wiseman
