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Featured blog posts

  • August 11, 2022

    NCEE and legislators grapple with questions about the future of education systems at the 2022 National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Legislative Summit.

  • December 3, 2021

    In this report from the 2021 International Summit on the Teaching Profession, NCEE summarizes the latest thinking of ministers and teachers’ unions from 15 high-performing education systems about how schools can advance an equitable, whole child agenda.

  • November 19, 2021

    Note: This story previously listed recruitment and retention strategies as those of the United Kingdom. The strategies discussed below are specific to England. It has been updated to reflect this correction. As shortages of teachers affect school districts across the U.S. and around the world, many systems are discussing possible raises and other ...

  • August 8, 2019

    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 ...

  • July 23, 2019

    In Shanghai, even the physical layout of schools is set up to encourage teachers to work together in professional collaboration.

  • July 18, 2019

    In 2006, Ontario, Canada realized that in nearly a fifth of the elementary schools in the province, more than half of students scored below the provincial standard in math, reading and writing. In response, the province invested in a program called Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership.

  • July 11, 2019

    All teachers in Estonia, Finland, Shanghai, and South Korea are trained to both action and quantitative research.