• 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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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.
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Washington is at crossroads on education policy. It can continue down the path of top-down accountability; devolve power to states and districts, thereby returning to the status quo of the last century; or rethink the fundamentals and do something different. In Choice and Federalism: Rethinking the Federal Role in Education, the Koret Task Force on Education proposes a new path in which Washington releases states from top-down accountability in exchange for unleashing the ability of parents to engage in informed choices of schools for their children and by causing those choices to generate competitive pressures on the providers of education services.
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• Values: The "What?" of the Politics of Education, Robert T. Stout, Marilyn Tallerico and Paredes Scribner-- The Politics of Education: From Political Science to Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Kenneth K. Wong-- The Crucible of Democracy: The Local Arena, Laurence Iannaccone and Frank W. Lutz-- State Policymaking and School Reform: Influences and Influentials, Tim L. Mazzoni-- Politics of Education at the Federal Level, Gerald E. Sroufe-- The International Arena: The Global Village, Frances C. Fowler-- Policy Analysis and the Study of the Politics of Education, James G. Cibulka-- Rational Choice Theory and the Politics of Education: Promise and Limitations, William Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson and Tyll van Geel-- The Micropolitics of Education: Mapping the Multiple Dimensions of Power Relations in School Politics, Betty Malen-- Rethinking the Public and Private Spheres: Feminist and Cultural Studies Perspectives on the Politics of Education, Catherine Marshall and Gary L. Anderson-- Making the Politics of Education Even More Interesting, Richard Townsend and Norman Robinson-- Educational Politics and Policy: And The Game Goes On, Jay D. Scribner, Pedro Reyes and Lance D. Fusarelli.
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This text is intended to be of use as a guide for students, scholars and researchers of the politics of education and of educational policy studies. The comprehensive work surveys major trends between 1969 and 1994, with chapters synthesising political and policy developments at local, national and state levels in the US as well as in the international arena. The text contains in-depth examinations of the emerging micropolitics of the field of education as well as policy analysis and cultural and feminist studies, and bibliographies are provided at the end of each chapter.; Designed as both a text and a reference volume, this special yearbook was planned in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Politics of Education Association in 1994.
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• pt.1.Background; issues; relevant considerations.--pt.2.Survey of Federal educational activites.--pt.3.Analysis and classification of the programs.