Good Schools, Good Students - A Reference to High-Quality Education in the United States

Author: Zhao Yong
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book provides readers in China, including teachers, administrators, and family members, with fundamental principles to identify and confirm effective school education practices through a review of Western educational research literature. The analytical framework of the book divides school education into five major parts: Leadership and Leadership Skills, Teachers and Teaching, Curriculum and Materials, Students and Learning, and Family and Community. The book consists of five chapters, each explaining one of our five research themes on effective school education. Each theme analyzes the complex process of teaching and learning in schools from a certain perspective. The selection of these five areas as our research themes is because they encompass the entire experience of school education. Of course, other aspects are also important, such as finance, technology, environmental design, or support services. However, it can be said that they all fall within the scope of our five research themes. However, topics like performance evaluation should be treated separately and elaborated on in a separate chapter (especially in the current context of highly gambling-oriented standardized exams).