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Featured blog posts

  • April 7, 2022

    Tracey Burns, an international education researcher, talks with NCEE’s Anthony Mackay about potential directions for education around the world.

  • August 20, 2020

    In this report, NCEE recaps the 2020 virtual meeting of The Global Education Leaders’ Partnership that brought together leading thinkers on how to transform education systems for the future.

  • June 12, 2020

    Education systems across the globe have undeniably faced many challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. But it is possible that the pandemic will also produce some positive, long-lasting changes, according to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In a survey of educators and other stakeholders from 98 ...

  • December 22, 2016

    By Jennifer Craw Seventy-two countries and economies participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015, which tested student performance on reading, math and science with a particular focus on studentsʼ performance in and attitudes towards science. This month we take a look at how select top-performing education systems and the U.S. ...

  • December 22, 2016

    By Nathan Driskell “In the past, many of our students had dropped out of school because they couldn’t cope,” Professor Sing Kong Lee told CIEB researchers during a recent benchmarking trip to Singapore. “Now, with the implementation of the streaming system, they feel less stigmatized.” To an American audience, the statement was ...

  • November 30, 2016

    The results of the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), released on November 29, show that U.S. students, despite some gains, continue to struggle, especially compared with their peers from high-performing nations. In fourth grade mathematics, U.S. students performed below those in 10 jurisdictions, and outperformed those in 34 jurisdictions—many ...

  • November 7, 2016

    By Bob Rothman “Welcome to the heart of teacher education,” reads a sign at the entrance to the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore. Located on the campus of Nanyang Technical University, NIE is a research institution that is the sole provider of teacher preparation in the country. It also provides extensive ...