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  • Future-Ready Career & Technical Education

    Education at a Glance 2023: Future-Ready Career & Technical Education

    Education at a Glance 2023: Future-Ready Career & Technical Education

    Hear from experts on international data, current U.S. priorities, labor market analysis, and successful district programs designed to help students find their voice through viable career and technical education options.

  • Building a World-Class Learning System

    Building a World-Class Learning System

    Building a World-Class Learning System

    The result of a multi-year study, this book explores how five school systems—British Columbia, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong and South Korea—have been rethinking and reforming their schools systems.

  • Girl Studying Windmills

    Top Performers Emerge from the Pandemic

    Top Performers Emerge from the Pandemic

    As school systems emerge from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, how can they learn from the experience and leverage the most effective and innovative practices of the era to become stronger and better prepared than ever?

  • Med Student

    Global Models of Career Pathways

    Global Models of Career Pathways

    Domestic and international examples of successful career pathways systems that can prepare all our youth to thrive in work and life.

  • Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg, Mississippi

    Vicksburg-Warren School District is transforming their teaching and learning experience & seeing results with far-reaching benefits for individuals, families, and the community.

  • Education at a Glance 2022

    Education at a Glance in 2022: Higher Education Still Pays Off

    Education at a Glance in 2022: Higher Education Still Pays Off

    The number of adults with higher education has doubled among OECD countries in two decades. They’re more likely to be employed and earn more than their less-educated peers. The challenge now is finding creative ways to support more students and help them get to the finish line prepared for in-demand jobs and careers.

  • Graph showing school engagement in school over time comparing the US and Estonia

    Scaling the ‘School Engagement Cliff’

    Scaling the ‘School Engagement Cliff’

    After years of disruption, student motivation in American schools is lower than ever before. What does Estonia, a country whose teens are more enthused for learning, do that U.S. schools can look to?

  • Geoff Masters CSE Report

    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.

  • Apprenticeship Quote Graphic

    Expanding Youth Apprenticeships: Taking a Page from Switzerland

    Expanding Youth Apprenticeships: Taking a Page from Switzerland

    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.

  • Singapore Tech Policy and Goals Graphic

    New Digital Learning Policies Emerging from the Pandemic

    New Digital Learning Policies Emerging from the Pandemic

  • Amanda Ripley

    Author Amanda Ripley: Rigor is ‘Common Thread’ in Top-Performing Countries

    Author Amanda Ripley: Rigor is ‘Common Thread’ in Top-Performing Countries

    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.

  • Tony Mackay and Bob Schwartz

    A New Educated Workforce for the New Economy: A Conversation with Bob Schwartz

    A New Educated Workforce for the New Economy: A Conversation with Bob Schwartz

    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.

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