[caption id="attachment_8612" align="alignright" width="291" caption="Mary Jean Gallagher, Chief Student Achievement Officer of Ontario (left) and Satya Brink, former Senior Advisor to the OECD GPS project at the OECD’s Education Directorate (right)"][/caption] Starting in 2004, the province of Ontario in Canada made a concerted effort to increase...
Many of us think that we learn all we need to know about reading in school but a new report from the OECD provides a rare glimpse at the way many young people continue to improve their reading proficiency after graduation. Some of this unfolds...
Recent Conferences of Note: 5th APEC Education Ministerial Conference May 21-23, 2012, Gyeongju, Korea The theme of this year’s conference was “Future Challenges and Educational Responses: Fostering Global, Innovative, and Cooperative Education”. Education ministers from 21 APEC member economies gathered together to seek ways to achieve...
[caption id="attachment_8580" align="aligncenter" width="633" caption="(Source: OECD. (2011). Education at a Glance: 2011, OECD. (2010). PISA 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background, Vol. II.)"][/caption] One challenge shared by many countries as they work toward improving student performance is insuring that new immigrants are provided the kind and quality...
[caption id="attachment_8602" align="alignright" width="138" caption="Tony Mackay, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Education"][/caption] This month, the International Advisory Board welcomed Tony Mackay as their newest member. Mackay is the Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Education, Melbourne, Australia and Deputy Chair of Australian Curriculum,...
Twenty-seven years ago, I had the privilege of serving as staff director and report author for the Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession. We released our report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century, in the spring of 1986. The message of...
[caption id="attachment_8432" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Ben Jensen, Program Director of the School Education Program at Australia’s Grattan Institute"][/caption] This month, Betsy Brown Ruzzi, Director of the Center on International Education Benchmarking, interviewed Ben Jensen of Australia’s Grattan Institute about the Institute’s most recent report, Catching Up: Learning...
[caption id="attachment_8484" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Review of Funding for Schooling"][/caption] Following the release in late 2010 of the PISA 2009 results, the Australian government, unhappy with how the nation stacked up against other high performing countries in Asia and Europe, commissioned a report to determine what changes,...
Transforming Education Summit 2012 May 7-9, 2012, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates This summit offers a platform to share lessons learned on how to deliver relevant education to young people more effectively in a rapidly changing global society. Keynote speakers will include former UK Prime Minister Gordon...
In their recent report published in February of this year, the Grattan Institute examined the school systems of several East Asian countries with a view towards drawing policy recommendations from what they learned for Australia. In the report, titled Catching Up: Learning from the best...