Cross-posted at Education Week A few years ago, my team and I were doing research in a high school in a Midwestern community. We found ourselves in the classroom of a long-serving high school vocational education teacher, standing around a workbench in his woodshop. He was...
Cross-posted at Education Week In 1978, When Deng Xiao Ping took over the moribund Chinese economy, only the Red Army had access to people with any significant technical skills. China had an informal education system that was millennia old, but Mao had destroyed the formal Chinese...
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...
Poverty Among U.S. School Children For the first time in history, a majority of students attending U.S. public schools come from low-income families, according to a report by the Southern Education Foundation based on the latest data collected from the states by the National Center for...
by Betsy Brown Ruzzi In this week’s Tucker’s Lens, we hear from Ursula Renold, former General Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology, now at ETH Zurich, about one of the world’s leading vocational education and training systems – Switzerland. In the...
by Jackie Kraemer & Jennifer Craw In the 21st century, vocational education and training (VET) plays a vital role in preparing students not only for immediate employment, but also with skills that allow students to continue their education and training and learn throughout their careers....
This month we cover dropping enrollment in U.S. teacher education programs, education reforms in Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and Poland, the OECD's recent look at VET systems and the ideal school size, and more. Updates on Singapore’s VET reforms, teacher career management and special education Singapore’s new SkillsFuture...
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...
By Austin Delaney and Jackie Kraemer The most cited examples of educational transformation are drawn from East Asian jurisdictions like Singapore and Shanghai. The experience of Poland over the last two decades, however, provides a European example of dramatic educational change. In the early nineties, emerging...