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Featured blog posts

  • May 5, 2022

    The pandemic has highlighted the tight connection between early childhood education and care and economic success for families and educational and social success for students. This has led to significant reforms around the world to both expand access to early childhood education and care and improve the quality of available programs.

  • April 29, 2021

    By Jennifer Craw Top-performing education systems have long understood the value of providing teachers with time in their schedules outside of teaching—time to prepare lessons, observe and collaborate with their peers, conduct research to improve practice, and build relationships with students and families. The data in the chart above show that teachers in ...

  • April 23, 2021

    By Gretchen Cheney As awareness of the global climate crisis grows, jurisdictions around the world are taking steps to infuse environmental awareness and sustainability into their school curricula to help future generations be more environmentally responsible. For more than ten years now, the Canadian province of Ontario has provided curriculum maps to school ...

  • January 10, 2019

    By Jennifer Craw Once the world leader in college degree attainment, the United States now trails international competitors on this metric among millennials. South Korea, on the other hand, which roughly tied the United States for college educated young adults in 2000, has far eclipsed the United States to claim the top spot ...

  • November 29, 2018

    The best education systems in the world are able to educate not only advantaged students, but also disadvantaged students to high levels so that they graduate with the skills they need to participate fully in society.

  • November 1, 2018

    By Brendan Williams-Kief “Early childhood education and care today is not where it was even ten years ago,” said Dr. Sharon Lynn Kagan, lead researcher of the new landmark study The Early Advantage from NCEE’s Center on International Education and Benchmarking, in a webinar earlier this month, hosted by NCEE president Marc Tucker. ...

  • November 1, 2018

    By Jennifer Craw How are top-performing education systems expanding access to free, high-quality early childhood education and care? This month we look at how six countries are working to provide free or subsidized early childhood education and care to the students who need it most.