Teaching in the Flat World

Teaching in the Flat World

Author: Linda Darling-Hammond

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0807756474

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This book will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States. The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches of high-performing systems that made education a top priority and developed high-leverage strategies to meet their goals. Their varied solutions offer valuable ideas for how to create a strong teacher and school administrator ccorps from recruitment and preparation through induction, professional development, evaluation, and career advancement into leadership roles. Chapters focusing on systems in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore are coauthored by local scholars with extensive knowledge of the history and current status for policy and practice in their nation. A final chapter highlights attributes that are absolutely necessary for any education system to flourish. The book will be useful to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in strengthening the quality of teaching.


The Flat World and Education

The Flat World and Education

Author: Linda Darling-Hammond

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0807770620

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Argues that the education system in America needs to make drastic changes in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that protects every child's right to learn.


Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley

Author: Jeff Brown

Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9781405242295

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Stanley Lambchop was just an ordinary boy until a large notice board fell on him and made him flat - only half an inch thick! Stanley gets rolled up, sent in the post, flown like a kite, and helps catch dangerous criminals! Then, he becomes invisible and discovers he can do amazing things like perform magic and foil a daring robbery.