Vivien Stewart recently returned from the latest in a series of international summits on the teaching profession, this one hosted by New Zealand. Once again, Stewart was asked by the sponsors to write a summary of the proceedings, a report she is now working on. ...
By Austin Delaney The recent history of Estonia is a powerful case study of how a country can succeed by investing in a high-skills orientated education system designed to support a high technology economy. Estonia has used such a strategy to transform itself from a poor...
Learning from Other Countries: Shanghai education officials are partnering with the United Kingdom’s Department for Education and sending local teachers to teach at British schools, according to Shanghai Daily. Starting in September, 60 English-speaking teachers from Shanghai will work in 30 UK schools to demonstrate...
By Jennifer Craw The last time the PISA assessment emphasized mathematics was ten years ago. With the most recent PISA assessment also emphasizing mathematics, we can now take a closer look, not only at how countries' and economies' performances compare to each other, but how their...
Equity in Education Regardless of Socioeconomic Status Many of the top-performers are developing policies to ensure students from low-income families still gain access to a quality education. The government of Singapore is providing more assistance to low- and middle-income families towards the costs of pre-primary...
Cross-posted from Education Week With each new report from the PISA surveys, the United States drifts a little further down the international rankings of national school performance. You might think that would concentrate the minds of our federal policy makers. What we have instead is a...
By Marc Tucker Those of you who make it your business to follow the PISA survey reports know that, in 2010, the first year that PISA reported results for Shanghai, China, this megalopolis of 23 million souls came out on the top of the world’s league...
By Jennifer Craw In our previous Statistic of the Month we highlighted the link between students’ socio-economic status and their performance on PISA 2012, pointing out that top-performing education systems tend to have a higher level of resilient students—who perform well on PISA despite disadvantaged socio-economic...
Cross-posted from Education Week Last October, Tom Loveless wrote a post on the Brown Center Chalkboard titled "PISA's China Problem". In that piece, he charged that the authorities in Paris were ignoring the systematic exclusion of migrant students from the reported scores on the PISA assessment...
Below is an opinion piece written by Ben Jensen, director of school education at the Grattan Institute in Australia, which appeared on the op-ed page of the Australian on December 11th responding to the release of Australia's PISA results. The 2012 results showed Australia slipping...