The Achievement Gap, Revisited: An Empirical Assessment of What We Can Learn from East Asian Education
International mathematics assessments have established students in East Asia as among the best in the world and their U.S. counterparts as mediocre. What is not clear is why this “achievement gap” exists. The last major study to address this question, Stevenson and Stigler’s (1992) The Learning Gap,...
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Harvard University
2012
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Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10575 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9795483 |