by Marc Tucker Over the years, our organization, the Center on International Education Benchmarking at NCEE, has shown that the nations with the most effective schools have evolved, highly complex education systems composed of many integrated subsystems. Each subsystem is well designed, in the sense...
by Nathan Driskell CIEB just released two seminal studies by Ben Jensen and Minxuan Zhang on professional learning environments in top-performing systems. These studies show how systems including Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and British Columbia have transformed schools into environments that facilitate the continuous improvement and...
by Jennifer Craw How much time do teachers have for professional learning vs. teaching? One of the main differences between the U.S. education system and the systems that outperform it in student achievement is the amount of time teachers spend in the classroom in front of...
by Marc Tucker There seems to be virtually universal agreement that, once goals are established for improving education systems, the means chosen by policymakers and practitioners for reaching those goals ought to be based on scientific evidence whenever possible. Indeed, in the latest version of...
by Nathan Driskell In late November, the OECD released their annual compilation of statistics on education systems around the globe: Education at a Glance 2015: OECD Indicators. Presenting over 300 individual data points on 42 countries, including the United States, the report is necessary reading for...
by Jennifer Craw Transcript for screen readers: 20% of older adults (aged 55-64) in the U.S. are proficient at using technology and problem solving, the highest rate in the world. In other words, older workers in the U.S. are more technologically savvy and skilled than their...
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by Betsy Brown Ruzzi CIEB Director Betsy Brown Ruzzi interviewed Michael Day, Director of the School of Education and a professor of education at the University of Roehampton in London, about Roehampton’s new “learning rounds” for its teacher education students. Learning rounds are structured visits to...
With 70 percent of young people participating, Switzerland’s vocational education and training (VET) system is a world leader in preparing young people for the high-skill, in-demand jobs now powering the strong Swiss economy. The Center on International Education Benchmarking’s recent report—Gold Standard: The Swiss Vocational...
by Nathan Driskell As this month’s Statistic of the Month shows, teacher preparation in the top-performing jurisdictions involves practical experience working with and learning from experienced teachers in schools. But many of the top performers do not stop there. They recognize that even after completing...