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  • Building a World-Class Learning System

    Building a World-Class Learning System

    Building a World-Class Learning System

    The result of a multi-year study, this book explores how five school systems—British Columbia, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong and South Korea—have been rethinking and reforming their schools systems.

  • Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy

    Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy

    Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy

    Edited by Marc Tucker, this book provides in-depth case studies of the VET systems of Switzerland, Singapore, China and the United States and distills the principles that could underlie a well-designed, future-ready VET system, given the rapid and expansive change in the global economy.

  • Leading High-Performance School Systems book by Marc Tucker

    Leading High-Performance School Systems: Lessons from the World’s Best

    Leading High-Performance School Systems: Lessons from the World’s Best

    In this important book, published by ASCD, Marc Tucker details how education leaders can design and build highly effective systems for educating students from a wide range of backgrounds to world-class standards by learning from the international education systems that produce much higher achievement often at the same or lower cost.

  • The Early Advantage

    The Early Advantage

    The Early Advantage

    In this two book series—the culmination of a groundbreaking study—Sharon Lynn Kagan and a team of expert international researchers find that Australia, England, Finland, Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are pioneering new but remarkably different visions for early childhood education and care (ECEC).

  • Empowered Educators

    Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

    Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

    Lead by Linda Darling-Hammond, Empowered Educators is a landmark, international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world’s top-performing education systems.

  • Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems

    Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems

    Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems

    An in depth look at the education systems that are leading the world in student performance to find out what strategies are working and how they might apply to the United States, this book provides a series of answers to the question of how the United States can compete with the world’s best.

  • The Principal Challenge

    The Principal Challenge

    Marc Tucker, Judy Codding, and a stellar list of experts from the United States and abroad paint a revealing portrait of what it means to be a principal now and how to apply the very best practices in the world to solve the crisis in school leadership.

  • The New American High School

    The New American High School

    The New American High School

    This book is designed for the leadership of reform at the high school, district, and state levels; for policymakers instrumental in these reforms; and to university faculty and graduate students in education. It will be a valuable resource in courses on leadership, administration, policy, curriculum and instruction, and change facilitation.

  • Standards for Our Schools

    Standards for Our Schools

    Standards for Our Schools

    Written by Marc Tucker and Judy Codding, this timely, tough-minded book shows how American public schools can be saved by instituting high standards for academic achievement. It explains not just what the standards movement is about and why it is important, but also what it will take to bring every student up to high standards, no matter where that student starts.

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