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Featured blog posts

  • May 5, 2022

    This just-released report outlines the rich conversations that took place among leaders from a set of the world’s highest-performing education systems about the impact of digitalization and other global trends on the future of work and civil society; what this means for what students should learn and how they should learn it; and how this might change the role of educators and the design of public education systems.

  • February 5, 2021

    Collecting useful education data and making it available in formats that various stakeholders can access and use is a key challenge across the globe and here in the United States. As one of the most digitized nations in the world, Estonia’s education data system provides a model that others can learn from. Since ...

  • December 17, 2020

    In the final Global Ed Talks of 2020, Anthony Mackay is joined by John White, co-founder and board chairman of Propel America and member of NCEE’s Board of Trustees.

  • June 29, 2018

    By Jennifer Craw Not only is British Columbia one of the highest performing education systems in the world according to PISA, but its large proportion of immigrant students outperform their non-immigrant peers.

  • May 30, 2018

    By Jennifer Craw It’s graduation time again. As another cohort of students accept their diplomas and walk out of their high school doors for the last time, let’s take a look at how the high school graduation rate in the United States compares to rates in top-performing education systems. ...

  • March 29, 2018

    By Brendan Williams-Kief Regular readers of this newsletter know well that the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) at the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) funds and conducts research around the world on the most successful education systems to identify the strategies those countries have used to produce their superior ...

  • March 29, 2018

    By Miki Aristorenas This month, we take a more granular look at Vocational Education and Training (VET) by examining two programs from two of the world’s best VET systems and one model of excellence in the United States in hopes that U.S. policymakers can learn from these programs and adapt those lessons for ...