Teacher Supply and Demand New Zealand, Japan and Singapore are all considering policies to better match teacher demand with supply. A new study from the New Zealand Ministry of Education shows that teaching jobs remain hard to come by for the hundreds of recent graduates...
New Coalition Government in Australia After several years of leadership by Julia Gillard, first as education minister then as prime minister, a new coalition government has taken over in Australia. New Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott is recruiting indigenous leader Noel Pearson to help fix low-performing...
Cross-posted from Education Week I recently spoke with Ben Jensen, School Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute in Australia, about Shanghai's professional development system for teachers. Ben is a highly regarded analyst and commenter on school education. He previously worked at the OECD Education Directorate...
Marc Tucker recently spoke with Ben Jensen, School Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute in Australia, about Shanghai’s professional development system for teachers. Ben is a highly regarded analyst and commenter on school education. He previously worked at the OECD Education Directorate where he...
Each week, the CIEB staff scours the web for education news and reports from the top-performing countries. We post the top stories every Friday morning on the CIEB homepage. Below, we summarize April’s top education news from around the world. Technology This month, several East Asian top...
By Jackie Kraemer The Asia Society’s Global Cities Education Network (GCEN) released a report earlier this year entitled, “Improving Performance of Low Achieving and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students” by Ben Levin, Professor and Canada Research Chair for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at...
By Emily Kingsland Earlier this month, the Center for International Education Benchmarking introduced a new feature on its web site. The Study Guide is intended to provide readers with a weekly summary of headlines from the top-performing education systems in the world. This month’s International Reads...
[caption id="attachment_8542" align="alignright" width="221" caption="A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation (ASCD, 2012)"][/caption] Vivien Stewart is a mistress of deception. In A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation, she distills a lifetime of astute observation into a slim...
[caption id="attachment_8432" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Ben Jensen, Program Director of the School Education Program at Australia’s Grattan Institute"][/caption] This month, Betsy Brown Ruzzi, Director of the Center on International Education Benchmarking, interviewed Ben Jensen of Australia’s Grattan Institute about the Institute’s most recent report, Catching Up: Learning...
In their recent report published in February of this year, the Grattan Institute examined the school systems of several East Asian countries with a view towards drawing policy recommendations from what they learned for Australia. In the report, titled Catching Up: Learning from the best...