'Lessons Learned: How Good Policies Produce Better Schools' is a book designed to help governments around the world improve schooling.
How do you get every school to be a good school? How, with thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of teachers, do you get every lesson to be a great lesson? How do you ensure that every child leaves school with the knowledge, skills, and values that they need to be successful and happy in a rapidly changing world.
Perhaps the most exciting thing about education at the beginning of the 21st century, more than two millennia after the founding of the world’s first public school systems, is that answers to those questions are beginning to emerge.
This book is the story of a search for lessons about how to improve schools; a search that has stretched from the grasslands of Africa to the streets of New York, capturing lessons about school reform from more than 40 countries on every continent.
It argues that massive improvement in schools is possible, that a small number of key changes would ensure that the next generation is better prepared for the future than any generation that has preceded it, and that, for the first time in human history, we know how to do it.
Read the full PDF version of the book here for free.
