National Standards And School Reform In Japan And The United States

Author : Gary DeCoker
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807742006
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States written by Gary DeCoker and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the implications of a national US curriculum through the study of Japanese education. It suggests that the US educational system lacks certain organizational mechanisms that support student achievement and would facilitate teacher involvement in the educational reform process.

Author : Joel I. Klein
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN 13 : 087609521X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Education Reform and National Security written by Joel I. Klein and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a "national security readiness audit" to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness.

Author : Jeanne H. Ballantine
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 141295052X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schools and Society written by Jeanne H. Ballantine and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration as taught in preparation programs and practiced in schools and colleges today.

Author : Nichi-Bei Kyōiku Kyōryoku Kenkyū. Nihon-gawa Kenkyū Gurūpu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educational Reforms in the United States written by Nichi-Bei Kyōiku Kyōryoku Kenkyū. Nihon-gawa Kenkyū Gurūpu and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Hoichi Tsuchimochi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education Reform in Postwar Japan written by Gary Hoichi Tsuchimochi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Education Mission to Japan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the United States Education Mission to Japan written by United States. Education Mission to Japan and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando M Reimers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013277009
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audacious Education Purposes written by Fernando M Reimers and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal and Russia and yields original and important insights on the process of educational change. The analysis of these 21st century skills reforms shows that reformers followed approaches which are based on the five perspectives: cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political. Most reforms relied on institutional and political perspectives. They highlight the systemic nature of the process of educational change, and the need for alignment and coherence among the various elements of the system in order. They underscore the importance of addressing the interests of various stakeholders of the education system in obtaining the necessary impetus to initiate and sustain change. In contrast, as the book shows, the use of a cultural and psychological frame proved rarer, missing important opportunities to draw on systematic analysis of emerging demands for schools and on cognitive science to inform the changes in the organization of instruction. Drawing on a rich array of sources and evidence the book provides a careful account of how education reform works in practice. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Mark Lincicome
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864018
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan written by Mark Lincicome and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of modern Japan agree that education played a crucial role in that country's rapid modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With few exceptions, however, Western approaches to the subject treat education as an instrument of change controlled by the Meiji political and intellectual elite. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan offers a corrective to this view. By introducing primary source materials (including teaching manuals, educational periodicals, and primary school textbooks) missing from most English-language works, Mark Lincicome examines an early case of resistance to government control that developed within the community of professional educators. He focuses on what began, in 1872, as an attempt by the newly established Ministry of Education to train a corps of professional teachers that could "civilize and enlighten" the masses in compulsory primary schools. Through the Tokyo Normal School and other new teacher training schools sponsored by the government, the ministry began what it thought was a straightforward "technology transfer" of the latest teaching methods and materials from the United States and Europe. Little did the ministry realize that it was planting the seeds of broader reform that would challenge not only its underlying doctrine of education, but its very authority over education. The reform movement centered around efforts to explicate and disseminate the doctrine of kaihatsushugi (developmental education). Hailed as a modern, scientific approach to child education, it rejected rote memorization and passive learning, elements of the so-called method of "pouring in" (chunyu) knowledge practiced during thepreceding Tokugawa period, and sought instead to cultivate the unique, innate abilities of each child. Orthodox ideas of "education", "knowledge", and the process by which children learn were challenged. The position and responsibilities of the teacher were enhanced, consequently providing educators with a claim to professional authority and autonomy - at a time when the Meiji state was attempting to control every facet of the Japanese school system. Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan analyzes a key element to understanding Meiji development and modern Japan as a whole.

Author : United States. Education Mission to Japan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Second United States Education Mission to Japan written by United States. Education Mission to Japan and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dave Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135906459
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education written by Dave Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a powerful critique of neoliberalised education - privatization, marketisation, new public managerialism, increasing control and surveillance of schools and colleges - in eight of the rich countries of the world: USA, Canada, England and Wales, Finland, Greece, Taiwan, Israel, and Japan.