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.

OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher and NCEE President and CEO Anthony Mackay discuss the key education policy priorities uncovered in Education Policy Outlook 2019, including the latest developments in the global education landscape and the lessons these new developments provide for U.S. policy makers and education leaders.

OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher, the U.S. Department of Education’s Thomas Snyder and NCEE President and CEO Anthony Mackay take a special in-depth look at implications for U.S. schools and school systems stemming from the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2019 report, the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world.

In this important book, published by ASCD, Marc Tucker details how education leaders can design and build highly effective systems for educating students from a wide range of backgrounds to world-class standards by learning from the international education systems that produce much higher achievement often at the same or lower cost.

As the summer months come to a close, CIEB spoke to members of our International Advisory Board to find out what issues are front of mind for them in today’s ever-evolving world of work and its impact on education.

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.