What Top Performers Do
A tool used by the top performing countries in education to adopt successful innovations in a coherent way that improves performance.
What is industrial benchmarking.
The period in which national testing is conducted.
What are gateways.
The type of schooling in which students from all social classes are mixed together in the classroom.
What is comprehensive.
A partnership between management and workers.
What is lateral accountability.
The name and date of the last focused discussion on education goals for students in the U.S.
What is the National Education Goals Panel in 1990.
The two broad themes associated with the top performers in education.
What are the trajectory of global economic development and the workforce needed to teach children in the current stage of global economic development.
Two of the clear goals identified by top performers in education.
What are mastery of knowledge of school subjects, problem solving, social skills, personal habits and dispositions, self-fulfillment, or values.
The standard used for all students as separate education programs started to merge.
What is the standard applied to students from only the top track.
The model used by current working professionals in top performing education systems.
What is Drucker's model.
To produce an unwanted behavior.
What is a perverse incentive.
The top performers are nations with education systems ranking highest in these three categories.
What are quality, equity, and productivity.
One of the high standards for entry into teaching.
What are a competitive application process, high scores on measures of intelligence, or panel interviews.
The system design used to distribute resources in ways that enable all students to achieve high standards.
What is investing more money in children hardest to educate.
An incentive for students to take tough courses and work hard in schools.
What is the use of external examination systems as gateways.
Practices not being implemented by any of the top performers in education.
What are the dominant elements of the U.S. education reform agenda.