How the World Learns: Comparative Educational Systems

When Culture Invades the Classroom (1x7)

Air date: Jul 24, 2015

Investigate the idea that "non-school factors" such as student poverty are among the strongest predictors of learning. Examine how two of the largest of these factors - culture and economics - play out in South Africa, which is experiencing an HIV/AIDS crisis, and in China, where test scores and national economics are thought to go hand-in-hand.