COVID-19 and Our Schools: The Real Challenge When the full scope of the COVID-19 crisis became clear earlier this year, most states shut down their schools for a few weeks, hoping that the crisis would pass quickly. Colleges and universities did the same. Now schools are...
Race in America 2020 There were slaves from Africa in the American colonies in the early 1600s. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, more than a hundred years later, with its simple, clear and inextinguishable phrase about all men being created equal, he owned...
By Jennifer Craw This year’s edition of the OECD’s annual report Education at a Glance offers new insight into what factors influence how education systems invest in teachers. This data looks at how each country spends the money that it dedicates to paying teachers by analyzing...
This month’s edition covers assessment reforms in China and Canada, new teacher and VET policy initiatives in Singapore, the rising costs of education from a government and individual perspective, and education reports of note. Assessment Reforms in China and Canada In an opinion piece for CNN, Jiang...
In this month’s edition of International Reads, we take a look at recent studies and international reports; op-eds promoting international education benchmarking; recent developments in education reform in Taiwan and China; and innovations in vocational education in Singapore, Germany, and Ontario. Recent International Reports and Analysis The...
Cross-posted from Education Week Mike Kirst has had a distinguished career as a leading education policy analyst. But, he's not just an observer. Kirst has long been in the thick of the action, starting with key leadership positions on the U.S. Senate Staff, in the Executive...
VET Reform A look at how China and Singapore are working to improve their vocational education and training (VET) systems and new research showing that more VET options can lead to a reduction in the high school dropout rate. According to the Shanghai Daily, six Chinese...
Cross-posted from Education Week The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896 that separate schools for minority students were constitutional as long as they provided educational services that were equal to those provided majority students. In 1954, in one of the most important cases...
Cross-posted from Education Week If you open the 2012 Digest of Educational Statistics and look at table 8, you will see, from the 1940s to the 1970s, that the proportion of the American population getting a high school education and college education grew steadily, at a...
Cross-posted from Education Week Three years ago, the OECD asked our organization to help them prepare what has turned out to be the first in a series of reports, Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons From PISA for the United States. We began that...