A new paper authored by Senior Editor Robert Rothman, a nationally known education writer and editor, details how districts in Florida, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania have responded to school closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including lessons they have learned and challenges that lie ahead.

From Ursula Renolds of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute in Zurich, this comparative report defines and measures the linkage between vocational education and training (VET) education and employment systems, then uses it to compare the largest upper-secondary VET programs from 20 countries.

The world’s best education systems are providing current and future school leaders with leadership development that is specifically tailored to their unique context, mirrors their day-to-day responsibilities, and is focused on real-world problems facing those in the profession.

In a groundbreaking new report, a bipartisan group of state legislators and staff are urging their colleagues to reimagine public education in the U.S. based on the successful practices and policies of the world’s best education systems.

This report from former Shanghai Normal University President and Shanghai Education Commission Deputy Director Minxuan Zhang, offers an insider’s perspective into the world-leading Shanghai education system.

A comparative study of instructional systems across nine jurisdictions in six high-performing countries, as defined by rankings on the OECD’s 2012 PISA assessments. That study produced country profiles and a cross case analysis.

Authors Nancy Hoffman of Jobs for the Future and Robert Schwartz of the Harvard Graduate School of Education shed new light on the Swiss VET system, how businesses play—and benefit from—a central role in the training of a highly skilled workforce, and the seamless connections between VET and the broader Swiss education system.

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.