This report outlines China’s need to evaluate and adapt the structure, organization and scale of its vocational education and training (VET) system—the largest such system in the world.

Marc Tucker, NCEE’s Founding President, calls for replacing the U.S.’s current system of test-based accountability with a system much more likely to result in improvements in student performance.

This compilation of interviews with top Chinese education leaders and international researchers explores some of the policies and practices behind Shanghai’s outstanding performance on PISA 2009 and PISA 2012.

From leading Australian researcher Ben Jensen, this report analyzes the way four high-performing systems provide professional learning to their teachers.

This report outlines the school governance structures used in the top-performing countries around the world in an effort to draw out lessons for the United States.

This two volume report is the result of NCEE’s groundbreaking study of the English Literacy and Mathematics required for success in the first year of community college in the U.S.

Marc Tucker explores what sets the Singapore Vocational Education and Training system apart—including good governance and a strong link to business.

This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy from their reform trajectories.

This report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century.

This is a set of internationally competitive performance standards in English language arts, mathematics, science and applied learning at the 4th, 8th and 10th grade levels. The standards are no longer in print, but can be downloaded here in PDF form.

In 1990, a commission chaired by former U.S. Secretaries of Labor Ray Marshall and William E. Brock published the third, and in many ways, the most alarming in a series of reports about the plight of the U.S. work force.