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

Author: Zhao Yong et al. (Editor-in-Chief), Yang Wen (Translator)
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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 literature review of Western educational research. The book's analytical framework 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 processes of teaching and learning in schools from a certain perspective. The selection of these five areas as research themes is based on their coverage of 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 discussed in a dedicated chapter (especially in the context of highly gambling-oriented standardized exams today).