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Featured blog posts

  • February 8, 2023

    Strong school leadership is critical to shaping learning environments, supporting high-quality teachers and teaching, and improved student outcomes. A new report from the Learning Policy Institute explores what makes a high-quality school leadership professional learning program.

  • February 2, 2023

    Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado is shifting the focus from students being college-ready to colleges being student-ready.

  • May 5, 2022

    In this interview, Anthony Mackay talks to Tracey Burns about her latest paper “What schools for tomorrow? Futures thinking and leading for uncertainty.”

  • 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.

  • May 5, 2022

    America’s most effective teachers are often not in the classrooms where they’re needed most. Some new research shows other countries face the same challenge. But there are also places to look to for solutions.

  • 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.

  • 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 ...

  • March 18, 2021

    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 ...

  • February 25, 2021

    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.

  • 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.

  • December 11, 2020

    Families around the world are under financial strain due the economic disruption of the coronavirus pandemic. As such, financial literacy is increasingly important for students. The 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an optional section on financial literacy. This section assessed 15-year-olds’ experience with and knowledge about money and their ability ...

  • December 3, 2020

    As jurisdictions around the world rethink the knowledge, skills and competencies students will need for a very different future, they are also considering what that shift means for the teaching profession. This has led to the development of new teacher competencies that reflect the broad goals that are being set for students. These competencies ...

  • 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 ...

  • March 18, 2021

    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 ...

  • February 25, 2021

    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.

  • 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.

  • December 11, 2020

    Families around the world are under financial strain due the economic disruption of the coronavirus pandemic. As such, financial literacy is increasingly important for students. The 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an optional section on financial literacy. This section assessed 15-year-olds’ experience with and knowledge about money and their ability ...

  • December 3, 2020

    As jurisdictions around the world rethink the knowledge, skills and competencies students will need for a very different future, they are also considering what that shift means for the teaching profession. This has led to the development of new teacher competencies that reflect the broad goals that are being set for students. These competencies ...