National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling
“TIMSS represented a quantum leap over previous cross-national surveys of education achievement. The United States and other countries wanted to provide high-quality data that could be used to compare their education systems beyond the initial "horse-race" results. Baker and LeTendre's far-ranging analyses offer clear evidence that this goal was achieved.”—Laura Salganik, Director, Education Statistics Services Institute, American Institutes for Research\ “National Differences, Global...
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Using American schools as a reference point, this book provides a comprehensive, comparative description of schooling as a global institution. Each chapter develops a story about a particular global trend: continuing gender differences in achievement, new methods nations employ to govern their schools, the rapidly increasing use of private tutoring, school violence, the development of effective curriculums, and the everyday work of teachers, among other topics.The authors draw on a four-year investigation conducted in forty-seven countries that examined many aspects of K-12 schooling, such as how schools are run, what teachers teach, and what students learn in mathematics and science. Baker and LeTendre present the results of the study in a non-technical and accessible fashion, outlining the implications of current trends for both education policy discussions and theoretical explorations of the role of education in society. Running throughout the book is a discussion of how world educational trends and the forces behind them will work to change and shape the possible directions education may take in the future.
1The global environment of national school systems12The declining significance of gender and the rise of egalitarian mathematics education163Symbiotic institutions : changing global dynamics between family and schooling344Demand for achievement : the worldwide growth of shadow education systems545Rich land, poor schools : inequality of national educational resources and achievement of disadvantaged students716Safe schools, dangerous nations : the paradox of school violence867The universal math teacher? : international beliefs, national work roles, and local practice1048Schoolwork at home? : low-quality schooling and homework1179Slouching toward a global ideology : the devolution revolution in education governance13410Nation versus nation : the race to be the first in the world15011Conclusion : observing modern schooling as an institution169
