New Coalition Government in Australia After several years of leadership by Julia Gillard, first as education minister then as prime minister, a new coalition government has taken over in Australia. New Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott is recruiting indigenous leader Noel Pearson to help fix low-performing...
By: Marc Tucker Ben Jensen, education director of the Grattan Institute in Australia, recently produced the best analysis of the way markets do or don’t work to produce improvements in school performance I have yet seen. Overcoming the methodological difficulties that have plagued such studies in...
By: Jackie Kraemer The OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) released the first of a series of planned case studies that are part of its Governing Complex Education Systems (GCES) project. The purpose of GCES is to explore what models of governance are effective...
By Marc Tucker England and Scotland may both be part of Great Britain, but they do not share a primary and secondary education system. Indeed, those two systems appear to be headed in decidedly different directions. Michael Gove, the rather energetic English education minister, is worried. The...
By Chew Leng Poon On June 26-28, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) held its 5th International Research Conference at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. Researchers, academics and educators from over twenty countries attended. IEA has produced cross-national studies of...
By Jackie Kraemer In the most recent issue of the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2013, which compares data on education systems in member countries, there is much new data to suggest that there are real payoffs to investments in education. Indeed, OECD reports that the...
Each week, the CIEB staff survey the education news from the world’s top performing systems. We post a round-up of the most important topics every Friday morning on the CIEB homepage. Here are the issues that mattered most in global education news this past month: Education...
Marc Tucker recently spoke with Ben Jensen, School Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute in Australia, about Shanghai’s professional development system for teachers. Ben is a highly regarded analyst and commenter on school education. He previously worked at the OECD Education Directorate where he...
By Emily Wicken and Jackie Kraemer On May 14, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted an event, “What Can US Schools Learn from Other Countries,” during which Marc Tucker presented his new paper on education governance, and Ben Jensen, the director of the School Education...
Each week, the CIEB staff survey the education news from the world’s top performing systems. We post a round up of the most important topics every Friday morning on the CIEB homepage. Here are the issues that mattered most in global education news this past...