By identifying the key characteristics of some of the world’s best performing education systems this book looks at how other countries can replicate that success. It may be of particular use to policy makers.
Surpassing Shanghai: an agenda for American education built on the world’s leading systems
Synopsis
This book examines the world’s leading education systems in student performance in order to establish what strategies work best and how they might apply to the United States, though the conclusions could be equally applied to the UK.
Developed from the work of the National Center on Education and the Economy, which has been researching the education systems of countries with the highest student performance for more than 20 years, the cities and countries examined include Shanghai, Finland, Japan, Singapore and Canada. For each country/city an explanation on how it made its educational advances is set out, including diagrams of their respective systems supported with test scores.
The authors then compresses the findings across all these countries into seven factors that account for their education success, of which a quality teaching force, and coherence in the design of the overall education system are seen as the most influential.