Article Review on: What the U.S. Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts", Mcgraw-Hill Research Foundation (Policy Paper: Lessons from Pisa), 2010.

Article Review on:

"What the U.S. Can Learn From the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts", McGraw-Hill Research Foundation (Policy Paper: Lessons from Pisa), 2010.

Kristen Liss

Madonna University

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for EDU 5070

Dr. Lorraine I. Jakubielski, Professor

In the article titled What the U.S. Can Learn From the World's Most Successful Education Reform Efforts, the authors Dr. Steven L. Paine and Andreas Schleicher address this question directly. They describe the substantial benefits the U.S. could take in by improving its educational achievement, explicitly examining how the U.S. can learn from high-performing Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) countries such as China, Canada, Korea, Japan, and Finland. The authors examine the top educational practices, the benefits the U.S. will obtain with higher PISA scores, and suggestions on how to improve the U.S. educational system.

According to the article, learning how to improve U.S. education outcomes by looking to the example of high-performing PISA nations is a great way to start. Many countries such as Poland, South Korea, Canada, and individual U.S. schools and districts in Miami, Boston, Long Beach, California, and Charlotte-Meckleburg have seen rapid improvement in their education systems by revamping it closer to the standards demanded by the PISA and U.S National Assessment of Educational Progress. In the 2007 McKinsey report, it stated that “improving system performance ultimately comes down to improving the learning experience of students in their classrooms” and that systems accomplish the best results when they “change their processes by modifying curriculum and improving the way that teachers instruct and principals lead.”

The authors state that if the U.S. can raise its educational achievement levels to become more competitive with top-performing PISA nations, then there could be more job...