What U.S. Schools Can Learn From High-Performing Countries
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2:29 | A question for our readers: How important do you believe U.S. test performance on international tests are, in terms of predicting our future economic prosperity? extremely important ( 32% ) ( 54% ) ( 10% ) ( 4% ) Friday January 13, 2012 2:29 |
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What U.S. Schools Can Learn From High-Performing Countries
Friday, January 13, 2012, 2 p.m. ETAmerican elected officials and educators have become increasingly focused on international comparisons that rank the performance of U.S. students against that of their peers in other countries. In the view of many observers, the results are not encouraging, with the United States generally lagging well behind high performers—Finland, South Korea, and Japan, for example—in such subjects as math and science. But international comparisons have also sparked an ongoing debate about how such results should be interpreted and about the lessons U.S. officials should take from countries that outperform the United States. Our guests offered their insights on why international comparisons of academic skill matter, and how those comparisons should, or should not, be used to shape policy in U.S. schools.
Alan Ginsburg, former director of policy and program studies at the U.S. Department of Education, and past chair of the human resource development group in the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation, a 21-member coalition that promotes economic development, trade and investment across the Pacific Rim.
Related Story:
- • Quality Counts 2012: The Global Challenge—Education in a Competitive World (January 12, 2012)
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