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La Academia Chilena de Ciencias presenta la publicacion de este libro sobre el sistema educativo en Singapur como un aporte al desarrollo de su sistema educativo, que en esta etapa presenta enormes desafios para las politicas publicas. Singapur representa una experiencia tremendamente exitosa en educacion, que a traves de cambios profundos y en poco tiempo ha avanzado significativamente en la calidad de su sistema educativo. En forma sostenida ha ido moldeando un sistema que entrega educacion de calidad a todos sus ciudadanos. Esta nacion invierte fuertemente en educacion, disena planes, los ejecuta, los evalua, disena planes piloto, los escala y modifica, en una espiral ascendente, donde el logro de las metas es crucial a la hora de la evaluacion Por un lado, su analisis y estudio presenta una extraordinaria oportunidad para comprender mejor el rol de los agentes, de las relaciones que se establecen en el sistema educacional y la importancia crucial de la coordinacion y perseverancia de las politicas publicas en educacion. Por otro lado, Singapur ofrece herramientas, metodologias, ideas y resultados de investigacion que pueden ser estudiados, contrastados y en algunos casos adaptados a la realidad de Chile.

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Students in low-income countries often have trouble learning to read; 80-90 percent of second and third graders in some countries cannot even read a single word and may know few if any letters (RTI 2009, 2010, 2011a, 2011b). The reasons are linked to limited instructional time, textbooks or parental help, potentially poor nutrition, or complex teaching methods that originated in high-income countries. Despite relative affluence, the academic performance in the Arab world has been a problem, with countries scoring on international tests much lower than expected based on per capita income level. Similarly Early Grade Reading Assessments (EGRA) in various countries has shown lower reading speeds than one would expect. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, which use the Arabic script, the issues are similar. The interaction of the perceptual and linguistic complexities turns Arabic reading into a complex multistage exercise. A reader of the Arabic script must: (a) decipher the text, (b) predict the vowels and keep multiple alternative words in working memory to test and decide on meaning, and (c) make linguistic sense in the case of Arabic. This process means that readers need to identify words faster than in other scripts in order to make sense of the text, but in fact they identify them more slowly. Not surprisingly, some studies suggest that the Arabic script may be read more slowly than visually simpler scripts or linear scripts. Education for All implies that nearly all students must somehow learn fluent reading very quickly when they start school in order to then progress to higher level topics. This must be achievable in all the languages and scripts used in low-income countries. By focusing on these lower-level variables this is doable.

Adolescents --- Bilingual Education --- Curriculum --- Curriculum & Instruction --- Education --- Education For All --- Education Reform --- Educational Sciences --- Human Resources --- Languages --- Literacy --- Nutrition --- Primary Education --- Reading --- Schools --- Teacher Training --- Teaching and Learning --- Tertiary Education --- Universities

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The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist. Collectively, the authors draw on novel methodological approaches and new data to examine the economics of bilingualism for the new generation of bilinguals entering a digital-age globalized workforce. The authors also pay considerable attention to how to best capture measures of bilingualism and biliteracy, given the constraints of most existing datasets.

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