By Marc Tucker In this interview, Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, focuses on the improvement of the practice of experienced teachers. We see how feedback from mentors who have faced the same challenges as the teacher being mentored can...
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 As I was getting initiated into the society that concerns itself with improving education, I was presented with a model elegant in its simplicity. University researchers, Ph.D. holders all, were to think up the questions the answers to which were most likely...
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...
By Marc Tucker Those of you who make it your business to follow the PISA survey reports know that, in 2010, the first year that PISA reported results for Shanghai, China, this megalopolis of 23 million souls came out on the top of the world’s league...
By Jennifer Craw In our previous Statistic of the Month we highlighted the link between students’ socio-economic status and their performance on PISA 2012, pointing out that top-performing education systems tend to have a higher level of resilient students—who perform well on PISA despite disadvantaged socio-economic...
Cross-posted from Education Week Those of you who make it your business to follow the PISA survey reports know that, in 2010, the first year that PISA reported results for Shanghai, China, this megalopolis of 23 million souls came out on the top of the world's...
Cross-posted from Education Week Last October, Tom Loveless wrote a post on the Brown Center Chalkboard titled "PISA's China Problem". In that piece, he charged that the authorities in Paris were ignoring the systematic exclusion of migrant students from the reported scores on the PISA assessment...
Cross-posted from Education Week I had an interesting conversation with Motoko Rich, the New York Times education reporter, the other day. We were talking about the reactions of Americans not just to the fact that the United States' place on the OECD-PISA league tables is falling,...
Cross-posted from Education Week This week, Andreas Schleicher and I respond to charges from Tom Loveless that the PISA results for Shanghai are suspect. Following the release of the results of the latest PISA survey, showing that Shanghai was again leading the world's league tables, Tom Loveless...