Zhao, Yong

"This volume provides specific strategies and practical advice on how to incorporate student choice for flexible, student-focused curriculum, motivate students to turn strengths into passions, and cultivate students' technical, creative, decision-making, and communication skills"--Back cover.

Presents concepts that teachers, administrators, and parents can implement to help students become independent thinkers, flexible, creative, and resourceful individuals who can respond to the changing global economy.

Explores individualized instruction for children.

Provides an insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both the best and worst in the world, discussing that despite turning out the world's highest-achieving students in reading, math, and science, Chinese educators, parents, and political leaders hate the system and long to send their kids to western schools; and discusses how current reforms in the United States parallel the classic Chinese system.

Analyzes how American schools in the twenty-first century are preparing students for life in a global society and encourages teachers to create a curriculum the emphasizes the knowledge and skills students will need as globalization continues to spread.