Informing Grades 1-6 Mathematics Standards Development: What Can Be Learned From High-Performing Hong Kong, Korea, and Singapore

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ginsburg ◽  
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Steven Leinwand
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Mathematics Standards ◽  
Standards Development

scholarly journals Examining High-performing Education Systems in Terms of Teacher Training: Lessons Learnt for Low-performers

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Erkan Çer ◽  
Ekrem Solak
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Selection Of

The quality of a teacher plays one of the most important roles in the achievement of an education system. Teachertraining is a multi-dimensional process which comprises the selection of teacher candidates, pre-service training,appointment, in-service training and teaching practices. Therefore, this study focuses on teacher training processes inSingapore, Shanghai-China, Hong Kong-China and Turkey and aims to discover the reasons for success in Program forInternational Student Assessment (PISA) by relating it with teacher training processes. Singapore, Shanghai-China,Hong Kong-China were chosen to study because their educational systems were ranked among the high-performingeducational systems in 2016. This study was a qualitative research and document analysis method was used to collectdata about the relevant countries' teacher training processes. The result of the study suggested some practicalconsiderations for teacher training programs in low-performing education systems about the selection of teachercandidates, pre-service training, appointment, in-service training and teaching practices.

scholarly journals Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 2040-2056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Kei Ho ◽  
Rowland Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Price Inflation ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
International Investors

Anxieties about the effects of international property investment in world cities like London have mainly focused on super-rich investors and corporate vehicles that have generated price inflation of assets and accelerated exclusion from an already expensive market. In fact, many international investors in the city’s housing market are middle-class individuals, and focusing on Hong Kong as an emblematic example of such processes, we examine their motives and the products offered to them by important investment intermediaries. We find that an important rationale for these investments lies in local class-based uncertainties and existential anxieties concerning the future of Hong Kong itself. We focus on the cultural roots of these investor rationalities but also consider the role of investment intermediaries who have helped bolster confidence while shielding investors from the consequences of their aggregated market power – concerns in London over household displacement from foreign investment. We suggest that what may seem to be the predatory search to ‘fry’ property (炒樓), a Hongkonger colloquialism referring to the search for high performing investments, should also be understood as actions anchored in and generated by the habitus of the Hong Kong middle class whose lives have been moulded by historical geopolitical uncertainty and worries about its longer-term social positioning and security.

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