World Class Learners
by Yong Zhao · Yong Zhao
Yong Zhao argues that test-driven, standardized schooling prepares students poorly for a globalized, automated economy, and proposes an alternative built on student autonomy, product-oriented learning and global collaboration. Readers can compare national education models and question common reform assumptions.
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