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Singapore’s surprising ‘desired’ education outcomes (including ‘a zest for life’)
- 04-29-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
It’s hard to go a few days without hearing somebody in the education world talk about how U.S. public schools are in trouble compared with some high-flying systems in countries including Finland, South Korea and Singapore. In fact, Education Secretary Arne Duncan just said it again, on Wednesday, at a forum at a Montgomery County high school about the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. He said he’s been “spending more and more time looking at educational benchmarks” in those school systems. I wonder if he came across the “The Desired Outcomes of Education” that is at the top of the Web site of Singapore’s Ministry of Education. The lists of outcomes for primary, secondary and post-secondary schools (each level has eight) are in English but they speak a different language from that used for education debates and goals in this country. Here, these days, K-12 outcomes are all about preparing kids for a career or for college. (more...)
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