This just-released report outlines the rich conversations that took place among leaders from a set of the world’s highest-performing education systems about the impact of digitalization and other global trends on the future of work and civil society; what this means for what students should learn and how they should learn it; and how this might change the role of educators and the design of public education systems.

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.

America Achieves CEO Jon Schnur discusses the importance of a good jobs agenda and the role of career pathway systems for preparing children for the next economy on the latest Global Ed Talk with NCEE’s Anthony Mackay.

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.

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.

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.