[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] by Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their performance on specific measures of equity. Canada is one of the few countries where immigrant children achieve at a level similar to...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] by Monica Pfister and Bob Rothman The 2018 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, “The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education,” took place April 13-17 in New York City. More than 17,000 people participated, attending more...
Cross-posted at Education Week. The PISA 2015 results show no meaningful change in the performance of U.S. students since 2012 in science and reading and a decline in mathematics. Yes, there is a story here about mathematics, but that is not all there is here. This...
by Jennifer Craw For education systems around the world, increasing access to early childhood education (ECE) can both improve student learning outcomes and close gaps in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged students. Enrollment rates in pre-primary education have increased worldwide over the past decade, as more...
This month’s feature takes a look at international education rankings, published by The Economist Intelligence Unit, and two different OECD briefs that examine the latest PISA data in relation to classroom instruction time and student motivational levels. On a national level, new studies were recently...
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...
Cross-posted from Education Week This week, Andreas Schleicher and I respond to charges from Tom Loveless that the PISA results for Shanghai are suspect. Following the release of the results of the latest PISA survey, showing that Shanghai was again leading the world's league tables, Tom Loveless...
Each week, the CIEB staff survey the education news from the world’s top performing systems. We post a round-up of the most important topics every Friday morning on the CIEB homepage. Here are the issues that mattered most in global education news this past month: Education...
By Jackie Kraemer The Asia Society’s Global Cities Education Network (GCEN) released a report earlier this year entitled, “Improving Performance of Low Achieving and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students” by Ben Levin, Professor and Canada Research Chair for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at...
[caption id="attachment_9504" align="alignright" width="150"] Ray Marshall[/caption] Marc Tucker interviews Ray Marshall on the links between immigration policy and education policy. Marshall is Professor Emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at...