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Featured blog posts

  • June 16, 2022

    Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), writes about how five jurisdictions that have performed unusually well on the OECD’s PISA assessment organize their school systems now and how these jurisdictions are aiming to transform their systems to better meet the changing economic and social context.

  • 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.

  • May 15, 2019

    On March 14-15 this year, education ministers, master teachers, national union leaders, and education organization leaders from countries with high performing and rapidly improving educational systems met in Helsinki for the ninth annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession. Hosted by the government of Finland, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), ...

  • May 9, 2019

    Some of the best early childhood education systems in the world have clear pathways for career development for early childhood educators.

  • May 2, 2019

    By Monica Pfister While the top performers vary in the approaches that have led to their high performance to-date, they share a common commitment to continuous improvement. This includes a willingness to re-examine and revise existing practices, even those central to the structure of their current education system, with an eye toward creating ...

  • April 25, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Estonia has an exceptionally low rate of students who perform poorly on all three subjects tested by PISA (mathematics, reading and science). In fact, with only 4.7 percent of students performing below Level 2 on all three subjects, Estonia has the lowest rate of low-performers of any European country, well ...