Making the Grade

By Jennifer Craw

As students all over the world prepare to head back to school, we look at three models of grade retention in Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S. to see how each impacts student performance.

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Paying Teachers as Professionals
Paying Teachers as Professionals
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Food for Thought: Providing Meals to All Students
Food for Thought: Providing Meals to All Students
Providing meals for all students, and using meal times as a way to promote learning, is a policy many top-performing systems use to ensure that all students are healthy and ready to learn.

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Helping Low-Income Students Save for College
Helping Low-Income Students Save for College
California’s new plan of providing funds for low-income students to save for post-secondary education is a strategy used by some top-performing countries such as Canada.

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