Cross-posted at Education Week In the more than a quarter of a century that our organization has been researching the world's top-performing education systems, we have yet to see one that lacks a very strong instructional core. Conversely, we rarely see such strong instructional cores in...
Key Reports OECD Releases New Rankings of International Education Systems Based on Multiple Assessments The OECD released new rankings of the world’s education systems using a broader spectrum of evaluation systems, permitting the inclusion of developing countries that did not participate in PISA. In the new...
Cross-posted at Education Week In several blogs that preceded this one, I have made the case that mandated annual testing of all students in the United States, when coupled with an accountability regime in which the data produced by those tests is used to make important...
This month we cover dropping enrollment in U.S. teacher education programs, education reforms in Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and Poland, the OECD's recent look at VET systems and the ideal school size, and more. Updates on Singapore’s VET reforms, teacher career management and special education Singapore’s new SkillsFuture...
[caption id="attachment_8276" align="alignright" width="384" caption="Video from the Future of Teaching Profession Conference"][/caption] Recent Conferences of Note The Future of the Teaching Profession February 16-17, 2012, Cambridge, UK Leadership for Learning (LFL) hosted this two-day event at the Møller Centre in Cambridge, which explored research and policy in relation to...