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By studying high-flying schools around the world, some district leaders in the U.S. are driving transformative changes to yield better results.
Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), writes about how five jurisdictions that have performed unusually well on the OECD’s PISA assessment organize their school systems now and how these jurisdictions are aiming to transform their systems to better meet the changing economic and social context.
Disparities in work experience during college between socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students impacts how long it takes to secure good jobs.
Note: This story previously listed recruitment and retention strategies as those of the United Kingdom. The strategies discussed below are specific to England. It has been updated to reflect this correction. As shortages of teachers affect school districts across the U.S. and around the world, many systems are discussing possible raises and other ...
A new “gold standard” research study shows that NCEE’s NISL program for school leaders along with aligned coaching leads to measurable improvement in student learning. The study — just published in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis — meets the strong evidence criteria necessary for Tier One classification under ESSA and will ...
In this Global Ed Talk, NCEE CEO Anthony Mackay speaks with Bob Schwartz, professor at Harvard University and co-founder of the Pathways to Prosperity network, about what America needs to do to update its CTE system to match leading countries around the world.
Top-performing education systems have long understood the value of providing teachers with time in their schedules outside of teaching: time to prepare lessons, observe and collaborate with their peers, conduct research to improve their practice, and build relationships with students and families. The chart above compares a U.S. high school teacher’s schedule with ...
All teachers in Estonia, Finland, Shanghai, and South Korea are trained to both action and quantitative research.
Leaders from Maryland and national education experts lauded a blueprint for education reform released by a 25-member Maryland commission and said it could vault the state into global leadership in education performance and serve as a model for the nation during an event on June 6 in Washington, DC hosted by NCEE. The ...
By Anthony Mackay In the sixth of NCEE’s series of conversations on critical topics in education and innovation, Anthony Mackay sits down with Rebecca Winthrop, senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. In her recent book, Leapfrogging Inequality, Winthrop and her co-researchers chart a new path ...
By Monica Pfister At a recent event celebrating the release of The Early Advantage 2: Building Systems That Work for Young Children, the product of a multi-year study of innovative early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems led by world-renowned expert Sharon Lynn Kagan and funded and supported by NCEE, the focus was ...
By Jennifer Craw The Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education has recommended that the state expand its current early childhood education program so that all 4-year-olds, regardless of income, and all 3-year-olds from low-income families have an opportunity to enroll in a quality full-day program. The Commission suggests that this can ...
By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their high performance for all students. In 2015, nearly half of all socio-economically disadvantaged students in Singapore and Japan performed at the highest levels on the science portion of the PISA exam. Find out more about how ...
On March 14-15 this year, education ministers, master teachers, national union leaders, and education organization leaders from countries with high performing and rapidly improving educational systems met in Helsinki for the ninth annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession. Hosted by the government of Finland, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), ...
Some of the best early childhood education systems in the world have clear pathways for career development for early childhood educators.
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All teachers in Estonia, Finland, Shanghai, and South Korea are trained to both action and quantitative research.
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Leaders from Maryland and national education experts lauded a blueprint for education reform released by a 25-member Maryland commission and said it could vault the state into global leadership in education performance and serve as a model for the nation during an event on June 6 in Washington, DC hosted by NCEE. The ...
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By Anthony Mackay In the sixth of NCEE’s series of conversations on critical topics in education and innovation, Anthony Mackay sits down with Rebecca Winthrop, senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. In her recent book, Leapfrogging Inequality, Winthrop and her co-researchers chart a new path ...
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By Monica Pfister At a recent event celebrating the release of The Early Advantage 2: Building Systems That Work for Young Children, the product of a multi-year study of innovative early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems led by world-renowned expert Sharon Lynn Kagan and funded and supported by NCEE, the focus was ...
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By Jennifer Craw The Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education has recommended that the state expand its current early childhood education program so that all 4-year-olds, regardless of income, and all 3-year-olds from low-income families have an opportunity to enroll in a quality full-day program. The Commission suggests that this can ...
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By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their high performance for all students. In 2015, nearly half of all socio-economically disadvantaged students in Singapore and Japan performed at the highest levels on the science portion of the PISA exam. Find out more about how ...
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On March 14-15 this year, education ministers, master teachers, national union leaders, and education organization leaders from countries with high performing and rapidly improving educational systems met in Helsinki for the ninth annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession. Hosted by the government of Finland, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), ...
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Some of the best early childhood education systems in the world have clear pathways for career development for early childhood educators.