OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher, the U.S. Department of Education’s Thomas Snyder and NCEE President and CEO Anthony Mackay take a special in-depth look at implications for U.S. schools and school systems stemming from the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2019 report, the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world.

As the summer months come to a close, CIEB spoke to members of our International Advisory Board to find out what issues are front of mind for them in today’s ever-evolving world of work and its impact on education.

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.

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.

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.

Key principles and practices from the best systems vocational education systems around the globe.

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.

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.