By Emily Kingsland In order to successfully evaluate teachers, education systems first must work with key stakeholders to define what it means to be a good teacher and then develop clear standards for the profession, according to a new background report released by the OECD in...
By Emily Wicken In their September 2012 Global Employment Outlook, the International Labour Organization (ILO) drew particular attention to the plight of the young worker worldwide. They project that the global youth unemployment rate (youth being defined as between the ages of 15 and 24) will...
By Emily Kingsland Earlier this month, the Center for International Education Benchmarking introduced a new feature on its web site. The Study Guide is intended to provide readers with a weekly summary of headlines from the top-performing education systems in the world. This month’s International Reads...
By Betsy Brown Ruzzi Backtracking from a proposal to do away with the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), the set of examinations that English secondary students take from age 16 on, Education Minister Michael Gove announced February 7 that the government would not establish the...
By Marc Tucker I just finished reading a recent book from Routledge, Teacher Education Around the World, edited by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ann Lieberman. It is a very rewarding read, full of new information and fresh, insightful analysis. The editors asked an impressive team of researchers...
This is a second version of this article intended to correct an error made in the first version.* By Marc Tucker My apologies to Maimonides. But I would not blame you if you were perplexed about the recent dust-up after the latest PIRLS and TIMSS data came...
By Emily Wicken In December, the results of the 2011 administration of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) were published in three separate reports, each examining international performance in reading (at the fourth grade level),...
By Emily Kingsland In order to successfully help young people prepare for employment, education providers and employers must open up the lines of communication and become more engaged in each other’s worlds. In the most innovative and effective school-to-work systems around the globe, it is common...
By Marc Tucker An interview with Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, on his paper entitled Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gap Worldwide, published last year at the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria. Marc Tucker: In...
I recently returned from a week in Australia and another in Singapore, and found much food for thought in both. Mining is by far Australia’s biggest industry. But that does not mean that it is Australia’s biggest employer. I learned that once a mine is established,...