by Nathan Driskell While compulsory school typically starts between the ages of 6 and 7 for children around the world, more and more countries are paying greater attention to offering high quality learning experiences for students as young as age 3. In particular, recent research has...
by Jackie Kraemer Many applauded when President Obama proposed free community college tuition for all students in the United States. The community college sector is where most students go for technical training or for a lower-cost entry into a four-year college. While it seems unlikely...
International Experts On Teacher Quality During his recent benchmarking visit to Estonia, NCEE President Marc Tucker praised the commitment and expertise of current Estonian teachers while warning that an aging teaching force coupled with low salaries and a low level of public regard for teachers is...
by Marc Tucker In 1986, our team, then at Carnegie Corporation of New York, issued a report that began with a story. In that story we told our readers that a South Korean company few in the United States had heard of, called Samsung, was...
by Nathan Driskell Around the world, policymakers are consumed with questions of the best way to assess their students. In the United States, the Congress is currently debating the appropriate frequency and purpose of testing in hearings on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind...
by Jennifer Craw The top performing education systems in the world have not only excellent student performance, but also a high level of equity in student achievement and an efficient model for educational spending. There are many ways to achieve all three goals and there...
Poverty Among U.S. School Children For the first time in history, a majority of students attending U.S. public schools come from low-income families, according to a report by the Southern Education Foundation based on the latest data collected from the states by the National Center for...
by Betsy Brown Ruzzi In this week’s Tucker’s Lens, we hear from Ursula Renold, former General Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology, now at ETH Zurich, about one of the world’s leading vocational education and training systems – Switzerland. In the...
by Nathan Driskell Think tanks, advocacy groups, and researchers have recently been sending American policymakers a clear and urgent message: too often, the United States’ system of teacher preparation is less than rigorous, attracts under-qualified candidates, and does not impart the knowledge and skills that will...
by Jackie Kraemer & Jennifer Craw In the 21st century, vocational education and training (VET) plays a vital role in preparing students not only for immediate employment, but also with skills that allow students to continue their education and training and learn throughout their careers....