25 Jan Statistic of the Month: Top Performers on Both PIRLS and PISA Reading
by Jennifer Craw ...
PISA Tag
08 Dec NAEP vs. PISA? Hands Down, It’s PISA
Cross-posted at Education Week. I heard the other day that Andreas Schleicher had been invited to address the NAEP governing board. Long overdue, I thought, but better late than never. The design of PISA makes it a much more valuable tool than NAEP for sorting out...
30 Nov Statistic of the Month: How Far Behind Are the Very Best U.S. Students?
by Jennifer Craw ...
26 Oct Statistic of the Month: Just How Far Behind Are the Most At-Risk U.S. Students?
by Jennifer Craw ...
20 Oct U.S. Needs More Top-Notch School Leaders and Here’s What it Will Take
Cross-posted at Education Week. NCEE came to the conclusion almost 20 years ago that school leadership development is the most efficient driver of comprehensive school reform available. As the old saw has it, none of us had ever seen a great school led by an incompetent...
13 Oct Has the U.S. Been “Sleepwalking Through History” or Not?
Cross-posted at Education Week. In last week's blog, I pointed out that, when the first PISA results were released in 2001, students in Germany and the United States both performed at about the average for all countries in the survey, but Germany reacted with what came...
06 Oct Germany Rapidly Improved Their Schools and We Didn’t—Why?
Cross-posted at Education Week. The lead article in our current Center for International Education Benchmarking newsletter reports on an interview with Andreas Schleicher, the head of the OECD's education program, on Germany's rise in the PISA league tables. Before the first PISA survey was administered in 2000,...
29 Sep After the Shock: The German Education System in 2017
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29 Sep Statistic of the Month: The German Education System
by Jennifer Craw ...
08 Sep Differences in Performance WITHIN Schools: Why So Much Greater Than in Other Countries?
Cross-posted at Education Week. Yup. We know where the differences are in school performance. They are between the rich schools and the schools serving the poor; between the majority majority schools and the majority minority schools. They are between the schools that can afford to hire...