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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Rethinking Summer Break
Rethinking Summer Break
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Moving Forward After the Pandemic: Governments and Teachers’ Unions Working Together to Leave No One Behind
Moving Forward After the Pandemic: Governments and Teachers’ Unions Working Together to Leave No One Behind
In this report from the 2022 International Summit on the Teaching Profession, NCEE summarizes the latest thinking from high-performing education systems about how schools can responsibly harness new technologies, build more inclusive communities, and help to secure a sustainable future.

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Building World Class Learning Systems
Building World Class Learning Systems
Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), writes about how five jurisdictions that have performed unusually well on the OECD’s PISA assessment organize their school systems now and how these jurisdictions are aiming to transform their systems to better meet the changing economic and social context.

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