Failing our Brightest Kids : the Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students / Chester E. Finn, Jr., Brandon L. Wright.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Educational innovationsPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: viii, 299 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1612508413
  • 9781612508412
  • 9781612508429
  • 1612508421
Other title:
  • Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 3993.9 .F565 2015
Contents:
Educating smart kids : why bother? -- How is the United States doing? -- How disagreement holds us back -- How the system slows us down -- Will differentiation move us forward? -- How do other countries educate smart kids? -- Japan : early neglect, later intensity -- Singapore : enough of a good thing? -- Korea : too much pressure? -- Taiwan : do as we say, not as we do -- Finland : not quite as advertised -- Germany : differentiating without differences -- Hungary : much talk, less action -- Switzerland : decentralized to excess? -- England : sifting through the policy rubble -- Ontario : how "special" is "gifted"? -- Western Australia : in for the long haul -- What have we learned? -- Moves America should make.
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Text in English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Educating smart kids : why bother? -- How is the United States doing? -- How disagreement holds us back -- How the system slows us down -- Will differentiation move us forward? -- How do other countries educate smart kids? -- Japan : early neglect, later intensity -- Singapore : enough of a good thing? -- Korea : too much pressure? -- Taiwan : do as we say, not as we do -- Finland : not quite as advertised -- Germany : differentiating without differences -- Hungary : much talk, less action -- Switzerland : decentralized to excess? -- England : sifting through the policy rubble -- Ontario : how "special" is "gifted"? -- Western Australia : in for the long haul -- What have we learned? -- Moves America should make.

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