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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.
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 Gretchen Cheney Last week the Biden Administration proposed making two years of community college free to students, extending public education by two years. Many top-performing countries have gone further than this in recent years, aiming to build lifelong learning systems that support continuous learning and upskilling through all phases of life. For ...
By Jennifer Craw 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 practice, and build relationships with students and families. The data in the chart above show that teachers in ...
By Gretchen Cheney As awareness of the global climate crisis grows, jurisdictions around the world are taking steps to infuse environmental awareness and sustainability into their school curricula to help future generations be more environmentally responsible. For more than ten years now, the Canadian province of Ontario has provided curriculum maps to school ...
Schools play a key role in providing a broad set of learning experiences for all students both in and outside of the classroom. Learning experiences that occur outside of school often are an opportunity for students to develop the competencies and skills that are so crucial for success in life and in a ...
By Jennifer Craw As students all over the world prepare to head back to school, we look at three models of grade retention in Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S. to see how each impacts student performance.
As the summer months come to a close, CIEB spoke to members of our International Advisory Board to find out what issues are front of mind for them in today’s ever-evolving world of work and its impact on education.
The following piece on Singapore’s educator career ladder is authored by Qidong ‘Alan’ Yang, a Senior Teacher of English Language for primary school students in Singapore. In Singapore, all educators—teachers, leaders and ministry specialists—are part of a single career progression system. To read more about how top-performing education systems assure an abundant supply ...
By Jennifer Craw Not only is British Columbia one of the highest performing education systems in the world according to PISA, but its large proportion of immigrant students outperform their non-immigrant peers.
By Jennifer Craw It’s graduation time again. As another cohort of students accept their diplomas and walk out of their high school doors for the last time, let’s take a look at how the high school graduation rate in the United States compares to rates in top-performing education systems. ...
By Brendan Williams-Kief Regular readers of this newsletter know well that the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) at the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) funds and conducts research around the world on the most successful education systems to identify the strategies those countries have used to produce their superior ...
By Miki Aristorenas This month, we take a more granular look at Vocational Education and Training (VET) by examining two programs from two of the world’s best VET systems and one model of excellence in the United States in hopes that U.S. policymakers can learn from these programs and adapt those lessons for ...
Systems change in education is not for the faint of heart. And with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) rolling back the federal government’s footprint in education policy, states are now in the driver’s seat of education change. For many state and local education systems in the United States, nothing short of rethinking ...
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By Jennifer Craw As students all over the world prepare to head back to school, we look at three models of grade retention in Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S. to see how each impacts student performance.
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As the summer months come to a close, CIEB spoke to members of our International Advisory Board to find out what issues are front of mind for them in today’s ever-evolving world of work and its impact on education.
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The following piece on Singapore’s educator career ladder is authored by Qidong ‘Alan’ Yang, a Senior Teacher of English Language for primary school students in Singapore. In Singapore, all educators—teachers, leaders and ministry specialists—are part of a single career progression system. To read more about how top-performing education systems assure an abundant supply ...
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By Jennifer Craw Not only is British Columbia one of the highest performing education systems in the world according to PISA, but its large proportion of immigrant students outperform their non-immigrant peers.
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By Jennifer Craw It’s graduation time again. As another cohort of students accept their diplomas and walk out of their high school doors for the last time, let’s take a look at how the high school graduation rate in the United States compares to rates in top-performing education systems. ...
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By Brendan Williams-Kief Regular readers of this newsletter know well that the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) at the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) funds and conducts research around the world on the most successful education systems to identify the strategies those countries have used to produce their superior ...
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By Miki Aristorenas This month, we take a more granular look at Vocational Education and Training (VET) by examining two programs from two of the world’s best VET systems and one model of excellence in the United States in hopes that U.S. policymakers can learn from these programs and adapt those lessons for ...
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Systems change in education is not for the faint of heart. And with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) rolling back the federal government’s footprint in education policy, states are now in the driver’s seat of education change. For many state and local education systems in the United States, nothing short of rethinking ...