Global Perspectives: Empowered Educators
Linda Darling-Hammond Offers an Unparalleled View of Teaching Quality Around the World in CIEB-Supported Study Countries, states and provinces across ...
25 May, 2017
Top of the Class Newsletter
Statistic of the Month: Highlights from Empowered Educators
by Jennifer Craw With the release of Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World this month’s Stati...
25 May, 2017
Statistic of the Month: The Netherlands Education System
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 educatio...
14 April, 2017
International Spotlight: Understanding Education in the Netherlands
by David Loewenberg In the Netherlands, a country with a population about the size of the state of New York, the lines between public and private scho...
14 April, 2017
Statistic of the Month: High Performance, Equity and Efficiency in Education
by Jennifer Craw Along with high overall student performance, the best education systems in the world also strive for equity in the performance of stu...
03 March, 2017
International Spotlight: What the U.S. Can Learn from School Building Design in Shanghai
by David Loewenberg On first thought, school building design may seem to have little to do with debates around improving teacher quality and elevating...
03 March, 2017
International Spotlight: Inside a CIEB Benchmarking Trip
by CIEB Staff A team of researchers from the Center on International Education Benchmarking and the National Institute for School Leadership recently ...
02 February, 2017
Stat of the Month: New Zealand Education at a Glance
by Jennifer Craw New Zealand is once again a top-performing country on PISA 2015. This month we take a brief look at New Zealand’s student perfo...
02 February, 2017
Global Perspectives: Streaming in Singapore: It’s Not Tracking, And It Actually Promotes Equity
by Nathan Driskell “In the past, many of our students had dropped out of school because they couldn’t cope,” Professor Sing Kong Lee told CIEB r...
22 December, 2016
Stat of the Month: PISA 2015 Top Performers at a Glance
by Jennifer Craw Seventy-two countries and economies participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, which tested stud...
22 December, 2016
NGA Highlights NCEE’s NISL in Major Report on Effective School Leadership Programs
In a new report, the National Governors Association (NGA) explores the impact that investments in school leadership development can have on student ac...
15 December, 2016
Marc Tucker: PISA 2015 Results
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. ...
05 December, 2016
2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
The results of the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), released on November 29, show that U.S. students, despite some ...
30 November, 2016
Tucker’s Lens: Memo To The Next President
by Marc Tucker “I love the uneducated,” said Donald Trump…many times. As well he might. If he is elected president, it is the uneducated who wil...
07 November, 2016
Singapore’s World-Class Teacher Education Organization: the National Institute of Education
by Bob Rothman “Welcome to the heart of teacher education,” reads a sign at the entrance to the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore...
07 November, 2016
Stat of the Month: Singapore Education at a Glance
by Jennifer Craw Learn about this tiny island nation with a world-class education system, including how many students attend school there, how much is...
07 November, 2016
Stat of the Month: Early Childhood Education Impact and Enrollment Trends
by Jennifer Craw For education systems around the world, increasing access to early childhood education (ECE) can both improve student learning outcom...
29 September, 2016
Global Perspectives: Building Student Success, British Columbia’s New K-9 Curriculum
by Jackie Kraemer This year, British Columbia implemented an innovative new curriculum called Building Students Success for all kindergarten through 9...
29 September, 2016
International Spotlight: School Leadership and Its Impact on Teacher Collaboration and Professional Learning
by Bob Rothman A new analysis of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) has found that the quality of school leadership is related to ...
29 September, 2016
Statistic of the Month: Selecting, Training and Supporting Elementary School Teachers
by Jennifer Craw In high-performing systems, rigorous standards for entry into the teaching profession ensure that only the most qualified individuals...
30 August, 2016