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A bold shift in professional learning is empowering teachers to collaborate, reflect, and lead change—transforming not just their classrooms, but the entire school community.
From teaching nutrition to building community at school, top-performing education systems understand that free and subsidized school meals have benefits beyond keeping all students fed and ready to learn.
After years of disruption, student motivation in American schools is lower than ever before. What does Estonia, a country whose teens are more enthused for learning, do that U.S. schools can look to?
There are too many incentives for teachers to leave the classroom and not enough for them to stay, NCEE’s Jason Dougal and Ann Borthwick argue in a commentary for K-12 Dive. Dougal and Borthwick lay out a vision for an education system in which teachers’ work environment is more like that of doctors and lawyers and they are rewarded for leading the growth of their colleagues. Implementing these changes in light of current teacher shortages will attract more people to education and keep them in classrooms longer.
Superintendent Cederick Ellis found that replacing rigid class structures in an elementary school with a more student-tailored approach boosted student outcomes. He is now taking that approach to the rest of the schools in Mississippi’s McComb School District.
Tracey Burns, an international education researcher, talks with NCEE’s Anthony Mackay about potential directions for education around the world.
With increased interest in and funding for apprenticeships in the U.S., Switzerland’s world-class apprenticeship model offers lessons for how to build a CTE system that is both appealing to students and valued by industry.
In the sixth Global Ed Talks interview of the year, Anthony Mackay is joined by Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) and member of NCEE’s Board of Trustees.
In this report, NCEE recaps the 2020 virtual meeting of International Summit on the Teaching Profession that brought together education leaders from government and teachers unions from 35 leading countries: the 30 highest performing and five fastest improving on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam.
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.
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 ...
By Monica Pfister On a recent visit to Estonia, NCEE staff learned firsthand that this Baltic nation—already a world leader in providing high-quality, accessible, and affordable early childhood education and care—is now tackling the challenge of attracting and retaining the best early childhood educators head on. This is a challenge many jurisdictions are ...
By Jennifer Craw On Monday, Maryland lawmakers gathered for a joint committee hearing on legislation that aims to transform the state’s public education system into one of the best-performing in the world. Known as the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future,” the proposed legislation is the result of recommendations produced by the Commission on Innovation and ...
By Nathan Driskell NCEE staff saw some of the very best of Finnish vocational education in action when we visited the state-of-the-art Omnia Vocational School in Espoo, Finland this past month. Omnia serves pupils from ages 16-82: 7,000 students in upper secondary education and post-secondary education along with over 25,000 adults seeking some ...
In the tenth conversation of our Global Ed Talks series, Anthony Mackay sits down with Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and NCEE Board of Trustees member, to discuss how states are working to align their instructional systems.
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In the sixth Global Ed Talks interview of the year, Anthony Mackay is joined by Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) and member of NCEE’s Board of Trustees.
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In this report, NCEE recaps the 2020 virtual meeting of International Summit on the Teaching Profession that brought together education leaders from government and teachers unions from 35 leading countries: the 30 highest performing and five fastest improving on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam.
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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.
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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 ...
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By Monica Pfister On a recent visit to Estonia, NCEE staff learned firsthand that this Baltic nation—already a world leader in providing high-quality, accessible, and affordable early childhood education and care—is now tackling the challenge of attracting and retaining the best early childhood educators head on. This is a challenge many jurisdictions are ...
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By Jennifer Craw On Monday, Maryland lawmakers gathered for a joint committee hearing on legislation that aims to transform the state’s public education system into one of the best-performing in the world. Known as the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future,” the proposed legislation is the result of recommendations produced by the Commission on Innovation and ...
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By Nathan Driskell NCEE staff saw some of the very best of Finnish vocational education in action when we visited the state-of-the-art Omnia Vocational School in Espoo, Finland this past month. Omnia serves pupils from ages 16-82: 7,000 students in upper secondary education and post-secondary education along with over 25,000 adults seeking some ...
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In the tenth conversation of our Global Ed Talks series, Anthony Mackay sits down with Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and NCEE Board of Trustees member, to discuss how states are working to align their instructional systems.