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Featured blog posts

  • June 17, 2021

    By Jackie Kraemer Like the United States, education systems across the globe are investing more in summer programs for students and expanding them to include both academic support to catch students up as well as enrichment and recreational activities to re-engage them, in response to a year of disruptions in school due to ...

  • June 3, 2021

    By Jackie Kraemer The idea that all students need an adult who is responsible for them and their well-being at school has gained traction this past year, as so many students were disconnected from school. One strategy top-performing systems use to accomplish this goal is to keep young students and teachers together over ...

  • March 22, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Like doctors, who intern following their medical school training, new teachers need additional support to develop the broader repertoire of strategies and problem-solving skills they need for their complex jobs. As a result, most high-performing systems have developed intensive programs of mentoring and induction for new teachers that provide helpful ...

  • March 14, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw While Finland’s highly intellectual and deeply clinical preparation for teachers is a notable example, many top performing education systems have much higher standards for preparing teachers than are found in US programs. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if we required this kind of preparation of our prospective ...

  • March 7, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Alberta is not alone. Many top-performing education systems limit the number of teacher training options to a few high-quality programs. And Kentucky is not unusual within the United States, where most states have dozens of teacher training programs available with vastly different levels of rigor. Unlike in the U.S., universities ...

  • February 27, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Find out more about how top performing education systems recruit and retain their world-class teaching forces in the policy brief “Recruiting and Selecting Excellent Teachers” from CIEB’s Empowered Educators study.