Since the inception of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2000, Finland has attracted international attention and recognition for its sustained leadership as a high-performing education system. As highlighted in the Linda Darling-Hammond led, NCEE supported Empowered Educators study, a major driver of...
Cross-posted at Education Week. This week marked the official launch of Empowered Educators, a landmark study commissioned by NCEE's Center on International Education Benchmarking and conducted by an international team headed by Linda Darling-Hammond. This international comparative study documents and analyzes what can only be described...
Cross-posted at Education Week. For most of us, the pantheon of education is populated mainly by great teachers. For others, it is populated by researchers who have made indelible contributions to the literature or critics who provided intellectual leadership for ground-breaking reforms. On June 6, NCEE and...
Linda Darling-Hammond Offers an Unparalleled View of Teaching Quality Around the World in CIEB-Supported Study Countries, states and provinces across the world, recognizing that teaching quality is the single greatest in-school determinant of student success, have molded their education systems around the objective of ensuring that...
Cross-posted at Education Week. About a year ago, I gave my blog readers an interim report on a very large international comparative study of teacher quality that our Center on International Education Benchmarking had funded a global team of scholars headed by Linda Darling-Hammond to do. ...
by Jennifer Craw This month we take a look at the Dutch education system, whose average scores on PISA 2015 made it one of the top-performing education systems among the 72 participating countries and economies. Dutch 15-year-olds perform especially well in mathematics. The Netherlands also...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Another year has come and is now headed for the exit, headlines are filled with terms like "polar vortex" and "President-Elect Trump", and I am once again reminded of how grateful I am to have an outlet like this blog to connect...
Cross-posted at Education Week. The PISA 2015 results show no meaningful change in the performance of U.S. students since 2012 in science and reading and a decline in mathematics. Yes, there is a story here about mathematics, but that is not all there is here. This...
How important is it for elementary school teachers to have both deep content knowledge and a profound understanding of how students learn that content? According to CIEB’s latest report, Not So Elementary: Primary School Teacher Quality in Top-Performing Systems, the two qualities are critical to...
Cross-posted at Education Week. Betsy Brown Ruzzi, the Director of our Center on International Education Benchmarking and I decided a while back that we needed to take a group of NCEE's senior staff to several of the top-performing countries that we've been studying over the years...