Cuba’s Academic Advantage : Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School / Martin Carnoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carnoy, Martin, Author.

Contributor:

Gove, Amber K.

Marshall, Jeffery H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Elementary--Cuba.

Education, Elementary.

Education and state--Cuba.

Education and state.

Education, Elementary--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for creating environments that encourage academic achievement? How much autonomy should teachers and schools have over their classrooms? Is there an inherent tradeoff between promoting individual choice and a better system of schooling? Cuba's Academic Advantage challenges many prevailing views about the effectiveness of educational markets, school and teacher autonomy, decentralized decision-making, and government responsibility for children's social and economic welfare. Drawing on interviews with teachers, principals, and policymakers, as well as hours of videotaped material taken in more than 30 classrooms, this book brings new evidence to bear on controversial educational issues currently under debate in many countries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. Context Matters

Chapter Two. Three Educational Systems in Three Social Contexts

Chapter Three. Understanding Why School Achievement Varies

Chapter Four. Comparing Academic Performance in Cuba and Other Latin American Countries

Chapter Five. The Long Road from Curriculum Construction to Student Learning

Chapter Six. Opportunity to Learn and Teaching Patterns

Chapter Seven. Lessons Learned

Appendix A. Production Function Estimates of Student Achievement in Latin America, by Country

Appendix B. Definitions of Terms Used in Chapter 6 and Task Analysis Guide

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804783941

0804783942

OCLC:

1178768841