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Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Compares the career-oriented West German school system, where 57 percent of all German teenagers are enrolled in work-study programs, to the U.S. system, which produces unemployed graduates that represent an unemployment average three times that of the national average. (Author/JF)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Vocational Education
Stigler, James W.; Hiebert, James – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
The videotape portion of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which captured "typical" mathematics instruction in Germany, the United States, and Japan, disclosed information about types of mathematics students encountered, teachers' role in developing concepts and lessons, and expectations for students. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction
Durr, Karlheinz – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Reunited Germany is facing an intricate network of social, economic, and political problems. It will take at least a generation of students to adapt to the new Western system espousing freedom of choice, self-motivation, equal opportunity, and critical awareness. Standards of the former West Germany are endangered by changing social attitudes,…
Descriptors: Communism, Curriculum Development, Economic Change, Educational Change
