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    <title>Comparing high-performing education systems</title>
    <subTitle>understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Tan, Charlene</namePart>
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    <publisher>Routledge</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2019</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Performance as testing : international large-scale assessments -- Formal assessment, private tutoring, and Confucian habitus -- Beyond high-stakes exams : holistic education in Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong -- Educational harmonisation and an East Asian educational model (EAEM) -- Pragmatism in Singapore -- Correlative thinking in Shanghai -- East-West balance in Hong Kong.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Charlene Tan.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>AAL</note>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <geographic>Shanghai</geographic>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
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    <geographic>Singapore</geographic>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <geographic>Shanghai</geographic>
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    <topic>Academic achievement</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <geographic>Hong Kong</geographic>
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    <topic>Confucianism and education</topic>
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