Learning from Other Countries: Shanghai education officials are partnering with the United Kingdom’s Department for Education and sending local teachers to teach at British schools, according to Shanghai Daily. Starting in September, 60 English-speaking teachers from Shanghai will work in 30 UK schools to demonstrate...
By Marc Tucker I was nearly finished writing my Tucker’s Lens for this month on another topic entirely when I came across a long note that Kai-ming Cheng, a professor and friend at Hong Kong University, had written to another colleague. I was quite taken with...
By Jennifer Craw The last time the PISA assessment emphasized mathematics was ten years ago. With the most recent PISA assessment also emphasizing mathematics, we can now take a closer look, not only at how countries' and economies' performances compare to each other, but how their...
By Austin Delaney The New Zealand Initiative (NZI), a public policy think tank, has just published Teaching stars: Transforming the teaching profession. This is the third report in a series of three, tackling the issues raised in the first report, World Class Education? Why New Zealand...
Equity in Education Regardless of Socioeconomic Status Many of the top-performers are developing policies to ensure students from low-income families still gain access to a quality education. The government of Singapore is providing more assistance to low- and middle-income families towards the costs of pre-primary...
By Marc Tucker Those of you who make it your business to follow the PISA survey reports know that, in 2010, the first year that PISA reported results for Shanghai, China, this megalopolis of 23 million souls came out on the top of the world’s league...
Interviewed by Marc Tucker When the first PISA results were announced in 2001, no one was more surprised than the Finns to find Finland at the top of the league tables. And Finland remained at the top as the results of subsequent surveys came out. But,...
By Jackie Kraemer The Huffington Post reported on reaction to PISA 2012 results in the UK, France, Spain and Poland. Here are highlights from that report. Among countries participating in PISA, the UK slipped 5 points in science to 21st and climbed two places in reading and...
By Jennifer Craw In our previous Statistic of the Month we highlighted the link between students’ socio-economic status and their performance on PISA 2012, pointing out that top-performing education systems tend to have a higher level of resilient students—who perform well on PISA despite disadvantaged socio-economic...
By Marc Tucker Three years ago, the OECD asked our organization to help them prepare what has turned out to be the first in a series of reports, Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons From PISA for the United States. We began that report...