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Lessons from Japanese and Chinese Education
March 13, 2002
James Stigler professor, psychology, UCLA

James Stigler, co-author of The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom and The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education, speaks about his understanding of teaching and learning based on his research of math education in the United States, China, and Japan.

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