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Featured blog posts

  • July 24, 2022

    A Las Vegas principal used the upheaval of the pandemic as a chance to ground the school’s professional learning in teacher-led inquiry.

  • July 22, 2022

    While U.S. districts are very focused on how to use the summer to address pandemic-related learning loss specifically, there are still long-standing concerns about the “summer learning slide” due to the long break from school, especially for disadvantaged students who often do not have access to the learning opportunities that their more advantaged ...

  • May 30, 2019

    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 ...

  • May 23, 2019

    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 ...

  • May 15, 2019

    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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • May 30, 2019

    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 ...

  • May 23, 2019

    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 ...

  • May 15, 2019

    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 ...

  • 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 ...