The Grass Is Greener: Learning from Other Countries?
A version of this post is published in Teachers College Record under Handan Xuebu: What We Can and Should Learn from Other Countries In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. –Mark Twain American policy makers and pundits are in love with some foreign education systems and are working hard to bring their policies and practices home. Others have national standards and a uniform curriculum, so should America (Chester E. Finn, Julian, ..
