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Featured blog posts

  • 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.

  • May 19, 2022

    Countries around the world are grappling with the reality of climate change and what it will mean for the next generation. Singapore and Finland have responded with national plans to rethink how their citizens use resources to foster greater sustainability, including actions that schools can take to better prepare students to take on the challenges ahead of them.

  • 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.

  • July 22, 2021

    California’s new plan of providing funds for low-income students to save for post-secondary education is a strategy used by some top-performing countries such as Canada.

  • July 8, 2021

    In this interview, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Jal Mehta argues that our current system of schools—designed in the early 20th century industrial era—need to become modern organizations capable of supporting deeper learning for all students.

  • June 17, 2021

    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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • March 22, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Like doctors, who intern following their medical school training, new teachers need additional support to develop the broader repertoire of strategies and problem-solving skills they need for their complex jobs. As a result, most high-performing systems have developed intensive programs of mentoring and induction for new teachers that provide helpful ...

  • March 14, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw While Finland’s highly intellectual and deeply clinical preparation for teachers is a notable example, many top performing education systems have much higher standards for preparing teachers than are found in US programs. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if we required this kind of preparation of our prospective ...

  • March 7, 2019

    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 ...

  • February 27, 2019

    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.

  • February 21, 2019

    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 ...

  • January 31, 2019

    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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • March 22, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Like doctors, who intern following their medical school training, new teachers need additional support to develop the broader repertoire of strategies and problem-solving skills they need for their complex jobs. As a result, most high-performing systems have developed intensive programs of mentoring and induction for new teachers that provide helpful ...

  • March 14, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw While Finland’s highly intellectual and deeply clinical preparation for teachers is a notable example, many top performing education systems have much higher standards for preparing teachers than are found in US programs. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if we required this kind of preparation of our prospective ...

  • March 7, 2019

    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 ...

  • February 27, 2019

    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.

  • February 21, 2019

    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 ...

  • January 31, 2019

    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 ...