by Marc Tucker A little drama is playing out in the UK that might be of interest elsewhere. To provide some context, let me remind you that, in a book that topped the world’s education reform reading lists for some time, Finnish Lessons: What can...
by Betsy Brown Ruzzi My colleague, CIEB Director Betsy Brown Ruzzi, recently spoke with Bruce Poh, Director and CEO of Singapore's Institute of Technical Education, about Singapore's efforts to strengthen the country’s already strong vocational education and training system. In 2013, Singapore convened the Applied...
by Marc Tucker You’ve never been to Estonia? You owe it to yourself to go. We just returned and the warm glow of the visit has not yet worn off. We cannot wait to go back. What these modest, friendly and highly educated people have pulled...
by Marc Tucker In 1986, our team, then at Carnegie Corporation of New York, issued a report that began with a story. In that story we told our readers that a South Korean company few in the United States had heard of, called Samsung, was...
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...
By Marc Tucker I have not, until now, used this space to talk about a program run by NCEE, the organizational sponsor of this newsletter. But I am doing just that in this Tucker’s Lens. I have the sense that there is a growing realization around...
Vivien Stewart recently returned from the latest in a series of international summits on the teaching profession, this one hosted by New Zealand. Once again, Stewart was asked by the sponsors to write a summary of the proceedings, a report she is now working on. ...
By Marc Tucker I was nearly finished writing my Tucker’s Lens for this month on another topic entirely when I came across a long note that Kai-ming Cheng, a professor and friend at Hong Kong University, had written to another colleague. I was quite taken with...
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 Marc Tucker 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 report...