The conventional wisdom is that American students perform woefully compared to their foreign peers. Not so: America’s kids stack up far better than the critics allow. But there is much to learn from experience abroad about improving our schools.
Gerald Bracey
Gerald W. Bracey, an independent researcher and writer, is an associate of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. He also maintains the Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency website. His recent books include Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the United States and Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered.
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What Teachers Know
Works Discussed in this Essay: The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom, by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert. Free Press, 224 pages, $23.00. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers’ Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States, by Liping Ma. Lawrence […]