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Featured blog posts

  • 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 ...

  • 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.

  • September 27, 2018

    By Jennifer Craw A perennial top-performer, Japan manages to outperform many of its counterparts – including the U.S. – while spending far less on education overall. Read more about this highly efficient system at CIEB’s profile of Japan’s education system.

  • August 30, 2018

    By Jennifer Craw As students all over the world prepare to head back to school, we look at three models of grade retention in Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S. to see how each impacts student performance.