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Featured blog posts

  • June 16, 2022

    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.

  • June 2, 2022

    Disparities in work experience during college between socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students impacts how long it takes to secure good jobs.

  • September 23, 2021

    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.

  • August 20, 2021

    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 ...

  • August 5, 2021

    By Nathan Driskell A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that professions that require similar education and credentials as teaching pay about 40 percent more, on average, than teaching. In other words, teachers only make 70 percent as much as similarly educated professionals. This finding suggests that the ...

  • July 29, 2021

    Providing meals for all students, and using meal times as a way to promote learning, is a policy many top-performing systems use to ensure that all students are healthy and ready to learn.

  • May 15, 2019

    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), ...

  • May 9, 2019

    Some of the best early childhood education systems in the world have clear pathways for career development for early childhood educators.

  • May 2, 2019

    By Monica Pfister While the top performers vary in the approaches that have led to their high performance to-date, they share a common commitment to continuous improvement. This includes a willingness to re-examine and revise existing practices, even those central to the structure of their current education system, with an eye toward creating ...

  • April 25, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Estonia has an exceptionally low rate of students who perform poorly on all three subjects tested by PISA (mathematics, reading and science). In fact, with only 4.7 percent of students performing below Level 2 on all three subjects, Estonia has the lowest rate of low-performers of any European country, well ...

  • April 18, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their support of all students. Hong Kong has worked to significantly reduce the impact of poverty and social background on student success. In Hong Kong, social background—which includes things like relative income, parents’ education levels and parents’ occupations—explains ...

  • April 3, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Read more about the impact of a professional work environment which includes time for collaboration and teacher feedback in CIEB’s Empowered Educators: Teacher Appraisal and Feedback brief. And for more on Japan’s teaching force, see the Teacher and Principal Quality section of CIEB’s profile of Japan’s education system. ...

  • April 3, 2019

    By Bob Rothman Building systems that can produce levels of achievement found in top-performing countries will require policy changes at the state and federal levels. But there is much districts can do—even in states where the policy environment is constricting—to create high-performing systems. That was the message that Marc Tucker, the founding president ...

  • March 28, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw High-performing education systems like Ontario, Canada understand that teachers are not fully prepared for all they will encounter on Day One, and that teacher burnout in the first several years is a major risk factor when trying to build a world-class teaching force. These systems have developed intensive programs of ...

  • May 15, 2019

    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), ...

  • May 9, 2019

    Some of the best early childhood education systems in the world have clear pathways for career development for early childhood educators.

  • May 2, 2019

    By Monica Pfister While the top performers vary in the approaches that have led to their high performance to-date, they share a common commitment to continuous improvement. This includes a willingness to re-examine and revise existing practices, even those central to the structure of their current education system, with an eye toward creating ...

  • April 25, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Estonia has an exceptionally low rate of students who perform poorly on all three subjects tested by PISA (mathematics, reading and science). In fact, with only 4.7 percent of students performing below Level 2 on all three subjects, Estonia has the lowest rate of low-performers of any European country, well ...

  • April 18, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their support of all students. Hong Kong has worked to significantly reduce the impact of poverty and social background on student success. In Hong Kong, social background—which includes things like relative income, parents’ education levels and parents’ occupations—explains ...

  • April 3, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Read more about the impact of a professional work environment which includes time for collaboration and teacher feedback in CIEB’s Empowered Educators: Teacher Appraisal and Feedback brief. And for more on Japan’s teaching force, see the Teacher and Principal Quality section of CIEB’s profile of Japan’s education system. ...

  • April 3, 2019

    By Bob Rothman Building systems that can produce levels of achievement found in top-performing countries will require policy changes at the state and federal levels. But there is much districts can do—even in states where the policy environment is constricting—to create high-performing systems. That was the message that Marc Tucker, the founding president ...

  • March 28, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw High-performing education systems like Ontario, Canada understand that teachers are not fully prepared for all they will encounter on Day One, and that teacher burnout in the first several years is a major risk factor when trying to build a world-class teaching force. These systems have developed intensive programs of ...