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Lucy Crehan
Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers
London: Unbound, 2016
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely recognized measures of academic performance worldwide. Administered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), PISA evaluates the math, science, and reading skills of 15-year-olds in participating nations. (more…)
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Paulo Freire
Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008
One of the most influential figures in education, though rarely spoken of outside education circles, is the Brazilian writer Paulo Freire. His book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed is the third most cited work in the field of social sciences and the most cited in education with over seventy-two thousand references. (more…)
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Diane Ravitch
The Death and Life of the Great American School System:
How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education
New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010
Ask almost anyone about the state of education in the United States (or even more broadly across Western countries) and they will express concern over low test scores, students being unprepared for college and the workplace, and a lack of civil and cultural knowledge. (more…)