Educational Policy Innovations

Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement

  • Sing Kong Lee
  • Wing On Lee
  • Ee Ling Low
Book

Part of the Education Innovation Series book series (EDIN)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement
    Sing Kong Lee, Wing On Lee, Ee Ling Low, Jocelyn Shi Yah Tan
    Pages 1-15
  3. How Useful Are the Experiences of the High Performing Education Systems?
    Wing On Lee, Ee Ling Low, Sing Kong Lee
    Pages 17-27
  4. Developing Educational Policies in a Holistic Skills Framework
    Andreas Schleicher
    Pages 29-48
  5. Conceptualising Teacher Preparation for Educational Innovation: Singapore’s Approach
    Sing Kong Lee, Ee Ling Low
    Pages 49-70
  6. Singapore’s Performance in PISA: Levelling Up the Long Tail
    Laik Woon Teh
    Pages 71-83
  7. Singapore’s English Language Policy and Language Teacher Education: A Foundation for Its Educational Success
    Ee Ling Low
    Pages 85-102
  8. Purposeful Policy and Practice for Equity and Quality – A Finnish Case
    Hannele Niemi
    Pages 103-121
  9. The Light and Shadow of Educational Achievement in South Korea with Suggestions for Levelling Up
    Youngdal Cho
    Pages 123-142
  10. Effective Teachers for Successful Schools and High Performing Students: The Case of Shanghai
    Minxuan Zhang, Jinjie Xu, Chuangyuan Sun
    Pages 143-161
  11. Levelling Up and Sustaining Educational Achievement: The Case of Hong Kong
    Esther Sui Chu Ho
    Pages 163-183
  12. Perspectives on High Performing Education Systems in Finland, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Singapore: What Lessons for the U.S.?
    A. Lin Goodwin
    Pages 185-199
  13. Sustainable, Large-Scale Education Renewal: The Case of Ontario
    Ben Levin
    Pages 201-216
  14. Comparative Analysis of High Performing Education Systems: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education as Factors of Success
    Wing On Lee
    Pages 217-229
  15. Back Matter
    Pages 231-242
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Asian Education achievements Education and Economics Education and Equity Education system reform Educational innovations Educational policy and practice Educational system comparison Finnish miracle Leading educational systems Singapore educational system

Editors and affiliations

  • Sing Kong Lee
    • 1
  • Wing On Lee
    • 2
  • Ee Ling Low
    • 3
  1. 1.National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeSingapore
  2. 2.National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeSingapore
  3. 3.National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeSingapore

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-08-5
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014
  • Publisher Name Springer, Singapore
  • eBook Packages Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
  • Print ISBN 978-981-4560-07-8
  • Online ISBN 978-981-4560-08-5
  • Series Print ISSN 2211-4874
  • Series Online ISSN 2211-4882
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