Cross-posted at Education Week. Betsy Brown Ruzzi, the Director of our Center on International Education Benchmarking and I decided a while back that we needed to take a group of NCEE's senior staff to several of the top-performing countries that we've been studying over the years...
Cross-posted at Education Week This is the third in a series of blogs describing our proposals for states interested in taking advantage of the flexibility provided by the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to build a truly world class education system. In this blog, I...
Cross-posted at Education Week In my last blog, I said that I would begin a series of blogs intended for states that decide they want an education system second to none in the world. This blog lays out a proposal for a high school diploma that...
Cross-posted at Education Week The days have gotten shorter, the nights colder and longer and we once again find ourselves looking ahead to a new year. Before the flame of 2015 is fully extinguished, I wanted to provide readers with a look back on some of...
by Nathan Driskell In late November, the OECD released their annual compilation of statistics on education systems around the globe: Education at a Glance 2015: OECD Indicators. Presenting over 300 individual data points on 42 countries, including the United States, the report is necessary reading for...
Cross-posted at Education Week Last week's news regarding disappointing results on the most recent administration of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) certainly made some waves. Scores decreased for both assessed grade levels in math, decreased for 8th graders in reading, and were flat in...
Cross-posted at Education Week A new report from the Council of the Great City Schools has done what seemingly nothing or no one has yet been able to do: Convince the current administration that the rampant over-testing in U.S. schools is proving harmful for the quality...
Cross-posted at Education Week Gloom settles on the land. California just released the scores from its administration of the Smarter Balanced tests and the news is not good. But then the State Superintendent told everyone they would not be good. The standards, he said, have been...
by Marc Tucker NCEE, the organization I head, runs the biggest and most successful program for training school principals in the United States, the National Institute for School Leadership. But we see a way to make it even better. We are more convinced than ever...
International Highlights The Skills to Remain Employed in the Current and Future Workforce According to the OECD Skills Outlook 2015 report, unemployed and under-employed youth remain at record highs in many European countries, with more than 35 million 16-29 year-olds neither employed nor in education or training...