Cross-posted at Education Week. NCEE came to the conclusion almost 20 years ago that school leadership development is the most efficient driver of comprehensive school reform available. As the old saw has it, none of us had ever seen a great school led by an incompetent...
Cross-posted at Education Week. In last week's blog, I pointed out that, when the first PISA results were released in 2001, students in Germany and the United States both performed at about the average for all countries in the survey, but Germany reacted with what came...
Cross-posted at Education Week. The lead article in our current Center for International Education Benchmarking newsletter reports on an interview with Andreas Schleicher, the head of the OECD's education program, on Germany's rise in the PISA league tables. Before the first PISA survey was administered in 2000,...
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Cross-posted at Education Week. Yup. We know where the differences are in school performance. They are between the rich schools and the schools serving the poor; between the majority majority schools and the majority minority schools. They are between the schools that can afford to hire...
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Cross-posted at Education Week. Over the years, when we have visited countries whose schools outperform our own, we ask our colleagues in their ministries of education what proportion of their students are classified as what we call "special education" students. The answer to that question in...
Cross-posted at Education Week. There are, as far as I know, only two strategies available to countries that want to develop the kind of talent needed to enter the front ranks of nations providing broadly shared prosperity to their people: education and immigration. Most of the...
by Jennifer Craw This month we take a look at the Dutch education system, whose average scores on PISA 2015 made it one of the top-performing education systems among the 72 participating countries and economies. Dutch 15-year-olds perform especially well in mathematics. The Netherlands also...