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Featured blog posts

  • 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 ...

  • May 20, 2021

    By Gretchen Cheney Students who took the 2018 PISA were asked to read a blog post which referenced a book review and then identify whether statements were facts or opinions offered by the author of the review. Only an estimated 47 percent of 15-year-old students were able to make this distinction. In an ...

  • 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.

  • February 21, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw CIEB’s Empowered Educators study found that in five countries with high student performance on PISA (Canada, Australia, China, Singapore and Finland) teacher salaries were between about 90 and 105 percent of the average received by college graduates across professions. By contrast, U.S. teachers earned, on average, about 60 percent of ...

  • January 31, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw In Finland, after a passing a rigorous entrance exam and a lengthy interview process, only 1 in 10 applicants is admitted to an elementary teacher preparation program. Other top-performing countries likewise have high standards for recruiting teachers. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if teacher preparation programs were ...