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Featured blog posts
While U.S. districts are very focused on how to use the summer to address pandemic-related learning loss specifically, there are still long-standing concerns about the “summer learning slide” due to the long break from school, especially for disadvantaged students who often do not have access to the learning opportunities that their more advantaged ...
By Nathan Driskell A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that professions that require similar education and credentials as teaching pay about 40 percent more, on average, than teaching. In other words, teachers only make 70 percent as much as similarly educated professionals. This finding suggests that the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their support of all students. Hong Kong has worked to significantly reduce the impact of poverty and social background on student success. In Hong Kong, social background—which includes things like relative income, parents’ education levels and parents’ occupations—explains ...
By Jennifer Craw Read more about the impact of a professional work environment which includes time for collaboration and teacher feedback in CIEB’s Empowered Educators: Teacher Appraisal and Feedback brief. And for more on Japan’s teaching force, see the Teacher and Principal Quality section of CIEB’s profile of Japan’s education system. ...
