By Jennifer Craw In Switzerland, employers contribute about 60 percent of the total cost of the entire Vocational Education and Training (VET) system. Young people apprentice in companies and are paid because they contribute to the work of the company. This is not how VET works in the United States where most firms ...

By Jennifer Craw Strong vocational education and training systems in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany give students the skills they need to more easily transition into the workforce, resulting in a much better rate of youth in engaged in work and learning. Each of these countries has a lower rate of youth ages ...

By Jennifer Craw Teachers in the Unites States spend many more hours per year in front of classes than do their international counterparts. While US teachers spend most of their time in front of the class teaching, teachers in top-performing countries like South Korea, Finland and Canada are expected to spend time collaborating ...

By Jennifer Craw Top-performing systems realize the importance of deploying their teachers wisely. That’s why Japan, South Korea and Singapore rotate teachers’ school assignments periodically. This allows teachers to work with and learn from a broad range of their peers, experience different school contexts including those in rural and urban schools, and teach ...