Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor for Education at Asia Society, a member of the Center on International Education Benchmarking Advisory Board, and author of A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation, spoke with Top of the Class about her latest trips to...
The relationship between socio-economic status and performance is complex. It has been tackled by education researchers over the years in an attempt to explain why some countries are more able than others to moderate the impact that socio-economic status can have on a student’s school...
Recent Conferences of Note Connecting How We Learn to Educational Practice and Policy: Research Evidence and Implications International Conference January 23-24, 2012, Paris, France There is increasing interest in connecting a broad array of scientists and practitioners at an international level, because individual countries have made significant...
One measure of educational equity is the extent to which disadvantaged students are likely to attend disadvantaged schools as opposed to mixed schools (those with students from a variety of social-economic backgrounds) or advantaged schools (those with students from well-educated and relatively wealthy backgrounds). Schools...
New Announcements On February 23, the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) announced that Robert L. King, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, and Robert Schwartz, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice in Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of...
Welcome to Top of the Class, our new monthly e-newsletter, and also to our new web site. Both are intended to provide you with a gateway into a world that appears to be of great interest to a growing number of educators and policy makers...
By Roland Østerlund, former director general of the Ministry of Education, Denmark [caption id="attachment_5696" align="alignright" width="294" caption="New Book: Nancy Hoffman, Schooling in the Workplace: How Six of the World’s Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life. Harvard Education Press, Nov. 2011"][/caption] On the...
In 2008, Australia’s six states and two territories agreed to develop common literacy and numeracy assessments aligned with a national curriculum in these subjects. Top of Class reached out to Barry McGaw, Chair of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and a Professorial...
Recent Conferences of Note The Role of Benchmarking in Global Education: Who Succeeds at PISA and Why? Dec. 2-3, 2011, Albany, New York This conference was hosted by the Institute of Global Education Policy Studies and the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at the University at...
In every newsletter, we will highlight a particular set of international education statistics. In this newsletter, we focus on the most recent OECD statistics relating reading ability to students’ socioeconomic background and the socioeconomic background of the other students in the school. The question of...