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This Mississippi school district is partnering with industry to design bold pathways to career readiness for its students.
McComb School District has undertaken an initiative that not only redefines their approach to education, but also serves as a beacon for districts facing similar challenges.
By studying high-flying schools around the world, some district leaders in the U.S. are driving transformative changes to yield better results.
Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), writes about how five jurisdictions that have performed unusually well on the OECD’s PISA assessment organize their school systems now and how these jurisdictions are aiming to transform their systems to better meet the changing economic and social context.
Disparities in work experience during college between socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged students impacts how long it takes to secure good jobs.
Countries around the world are grappling with the reality of climate change and what it will mean for the next generation. Singapore and Finland have responded with national plans to rethink how their citizens use resources to foster greater sustainability, including actions that schools can take to better prepare students to take on the challenges ahead of them.
In this interview, Anthony Mackay talks to Tracey Burns about her latest paper “What schools for tomorrow? Futures thinking and leading for uncertainty.”
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 ...
The urgency of restarting economies has accelerated efforts around the world to provide broader access to high quality child care.
By Gretchen Cheney Last week the Biden Administration proposed making two years of community college free to students, extending public education by two years. Many top-performing countries have gone further than this in recent years, aiming to build lifelong learning systems that support continuous learning and upskilling through all phases of life. For ...
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 ...
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 ...
Schools play a key role in providing a broad set of learning experiences for all students both in and outside of the classroom. Learning experiences that occur outside of school often are an opportunity for students to develop the competencies and skills that are so crucial for success in life and in a ...
For the first Global Ed Talks interview of 2021, Anthony Mackay is joined by James Pellegrino, founding co-director of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute, and member of NCEE’s Board of Trustees.
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 ...
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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 ...
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The urgency of restarting economies has accelerated efforts around the world to provide broader access to high quality child care.
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By Gretchen Cheney Last week the Biden Administration proposed making two years of community college free to students, extending public education by two years. Many top-performing countries have gone further than this in recent years, aiming to build lifelong learning systems that support continuous learning and upskilling through all phases of life. For ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Schools play a key role in providing a broad set of learning experiences for all students both in and outside of the classroom. Learning experiences that occur outside of school often are an opportunity for students to develop the competencies and skills that are so crucial for success in life and in a ...
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For the first Global Ed Talks interview of 2021, Anthony Mackay is joined by James Pellegrino, founding co-director of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute, and member of NCEE’s Board of Trustees.
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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 ...