disc 1. The global challenge to educate --
Sputnik launches the science-math race --
Evidence-based policy making in education --
What should we compare about education? --
The world learns from Horace Mann --
disc 2. When culture invades the classroom --
Germany and Japan's shattered expectations --
Borrowing foreign school cultures --
The value in linking school to jobs --
Why blame the teacher? --
Gender pipeline lifts equality dream --
disc 3. Gulf schools: the non-national advantage --
Who is accountable for education? --
How parents shape student outcomes --
Reading, writing, and religion --
International test scores: all and nothing --
Turning a good teacher into a great one --
disc 4. The fountains of civil society --
From national student to global citizen --
The problem with teaching's best practices --
A school inside your phone? --
The rich-and-poor learning cycle --
How to fix education: heart, head, hands.
