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Strong school leadership is critical to shaping learning environments, supporting high-quality teachers and teaching, and improved student outcomes. A new report from the Learning Policy Institute explores what makes a high-quality school leadership professional learning program.
The pandemic has highlighted the tight connection between early childhood education and care and economic success for families and educational and social success for students. This has led to significant reforms around the world to both expand access to early childhood education and care and improve the quality of available programs.
America’s most effective teachers are often not in the classrooms where they’re needed most. Some new research shows other countries face the same challenge. But there are also places to look to for solutions.
By Jackie Kraemer Like the United States, education systems across the globe are investing more in summer programs for students and expanding them to include both academic support to catch students up as well as enrichment and recreational activities to re-engage them, in response to a year of disruptions in school due to ...
By Jackie Kraemer The idea that all students need an adult who is responsible for them and their well-being at school has gained traction this past year, as so many students were disconnected from school. One strategy top-performing systems use to accomplish this goal is to keep young students and teachers together over ...
By Gretchen Cheney Students who took the 2018 PISA were asked to read a blog post which referenced a book review and then identify whether statements were facts or opinions offered by the author of the review. Only an estimated 47 percent of 15-year-old students were able to make this distinction. In an ...
The urgency of restarting economies has accelerated efforts around the world to provide broader access to high quality child care.
By Jennifer Craw Alberta is not alone. Many top-performing education systems limit the number of teacher training options to a few high-quality programs. And Kentucky is not unusual within the United States, where most states have dozens of teacher training programs available with vastly different levels of rigor. Unlike in the U.S., universities ...
By Jennifer Craw Find out more about how top performing education systems recruit and retain their world-class teaching forces in the policy brief “Recruiting and Selecting Excellent Teachers” from CIEB’s Empowered Educators study.
By Jennifer Craw CIEB’s Empowered Educators study found that in five countries with high student performance on PISA (Canada, Australia, China, Singapore and Finland) teacher salaries were between about 90 and 105 percent of the average received by college graduates across professions. By contrast, U.S. teachers earned, on average, about 60 percent of ...
By Jennifer Craw In Finland, after a passing a rigorous entrance exam and a lengthy interview process, only 1 in 10 applicants is admitted to an elementary teacher preparation program. Other top-performing countries likewise have high standards for recruiting teachers. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if teacher preparation programs were ...
By Jennifer Craw
Nearly half of U.S. teachers wish they had more opportunities to collaborate with their peers.
By Anthony Mackay In this first of a series of conversations on critical topics in education and innovation, Anthony Mackay is joined by University College London Emeritus Professor and CIEB International Advisor Dylan Wiliam to discuss his recent book Creating the Schools Our Children Need.
By Jennifer Craw Once the world leader in college degree attainment, the United States now trails international competitors on this metric among millennials. South Korea, on the other hand, which roughly tied the United States for college educated young adults in 2000, has far eclipsed the United States to claim the top spot ...
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By Jennifer Craw Alberta is not alone. Many top-performing education systems limit the number of teacher training options to a few high-quality programs. And Kentucky is not unusual within the United States, where most states have dozens of teacher training programs available with vastly different levels of rigor. Unlike in the U.S., universities ...
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By Jennifer Craw Find out more about how top performing education systems recruit and retain their world-class teaching forces in the policy brief “Recruiting and Selecting Excellent Teachers” from CIEB’s Empowered Educators study.
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By Jennifer Craw CIEB’s Empowered Educators study found that in five countries with high student performance on PISA (Canada, Australia, China, Singapore and Finland) teacher salaries were between about 90 and 105 percent of the average received by college graduates across professions. By contrast, U.S. teachers earned, on average, about 60 percent of ...
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By Jennifer Craw In Finland, after a passing a rigorous entrance exam and a lengthy interview process, only 1 in 10 applicants is admitted to an elementary teacher preparation program. Other top-performing countries likewise have high standards for recruiting teachers. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if teacher preparation programs were ...
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Nearly half of U.S. teachers wish they had more opportunities to collaborate with their peers.
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By Anthony Mackay In this first of a series of conversations on critical topics in education and innovation, Anthony Mackay is joined by University College London Emeritus Professor and CIEB International Advisor Dylan Wiliam to discuss his recent book Creating the Schools Our Children Need.
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By Jennifer Craw Once the world leader in college degree attainment, the United States now trails international competitors on this metric among millennials. South Korea, on the other hand, which roughly tied the United States for college educated young adults in 2000, has far eclipsed the United States to claim the top spot ...