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.

With increased interest in and funding for apprenticeships in the U.S., Switzerland’s world-class apprenticeship model offers lessons for how to build a CTE system that is both appealing to students and valued by industry.

The writer of The Smartest Kids in the World speaks with NCEE’s Jason Dougal about the lessons she’s learned following students studying abroad.

In this Global Ed Talk, NCEE CEO Anthony Mackay speaks with Bob Schwartz, professor at Harvard University and co-founder of the Pathways to Prosperity network, about what America needs to do to update its CTE system to match leading countries around the world.

In this interview, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Jal Mehta argues that our current system of schools—designed in the early 20th century industrial era—need to become modern organizations capable of supporting deeper learning for all students.

For the first Global Ed Talks interview of 2021, Anthony Mackay is joined by James Pellegrino, founding co-director of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) interdisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute, and member of NCEE’s Board of Trustees.

In December of 2019, the OECD’s Andreas Schleicher, the U.S. Department of Education’s Peggy Carr, and NCEE’s Anthony Mackay took an in-depth look at the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 results and lessons they provide for U.S. policy makers and education leaders.

In preparation of the much-anticipated release on December 3, 2019, NCEE hosted a special briefing that provided key insights on the report – from what countries participated and what was tested in 2018 to understanding what results do and do not mean – featuring Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at OECD.

On Nov. 7, 2019, New America hosted a live event in DC with Tucker and a panel of career and technical education experts to discuss the book’s findings and its implications for policy makers and practitioners.

Edited by Marc Tucker, this book provides in-depth case studies of the VET systems of Switzerland, Singapore, China and the United States and distills the principles that could underlie a well-designed, future-ready VET system, given the rapid and expansive change in the global economy.