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Statistic of the Month: How Students in Top Performing Countries Pay for College
by Jackie Kraemer Many applauded when President Obama proposed free community college tuition for all students in the United States. The community college sector is where most students go for...
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Statistic of the Month: College Enrollment and Skilled Workers Shortages in...
by Jennifer Craw This month CIEB released an important new report, Made In China: Challenge and Innovation in China’s Vocational Education and Training System, which includes the findings from dozens...
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Statistic of the Month: Managing Teacher Supply and Demand
by Jennifer Craw and Nathan Driskell Common among top performing jurisdictions are policies and practices that recruit, prepare, train, compensate and retain high quality teachers. The Center on...
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Statistic of the Month: GDP Gains When Every Student Attains Universal Basic...
by Jennifer Craw The recent report by Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann, “Universal Basic Skills: What Countries Stand to Gain,” published by the OECD, shows that even wealthy, developed nations can...
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Statistic of the Month: How Top Performers Choose School Principals
by Jennifer Craw and Jackie Kraemer This month’s Top of the Class focuses on school leadership and the important role it plays in helping top-performing education systems deliver world-leading...
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Statistic of the Month: Pre-service Practical Training for Teachers Around...
by Jennifer Craw and Nathan Driskell The best teacher training programs offer not only high-quality pedagogy and content courses to future teachers, but also extensive practical experience in the...
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Stat of the Month: Paid Maternity Leave in Top Performing Countries
by Jennifer Craw One clear difference between the top-performing education systems and the United States is the level of support offered to young families even before children enter the school system....
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The U.S. Millennial Skills Gap: Technology and Problem Solving
by Jennifer Craw Transcript for screen readers: 20% of older adults (aged 55-64) in the U.S. are proficient at using technology and problem solving, the highest rate in the world. In other words,...
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Statistic of the Month: More Teaching, Less Learning?
by Jennifer Craw How much time do teachers have for professional learning vs. teaching? One of the main differences between the U.S. education system and the systems that outperform it in student...
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Statistic of the Month: High Achievement and Socioeconomically Diverse Schools
by Jennifer Craw Recently the OECD released a new report, Low-Performing Students: Why They Fall Behind and How to Help Them Succeed. Among its findings, the report shows a relationship between higher...
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Statistic of the Month: Using Technology Well: The School to Work Mismatch
by Jennifer Craw For more on the recent release of PIAAC results for U.S. adults, including examples of problem solving in technology rich environments, see this month’s Global Perspectives.
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Statistic of the Month: Are Teachers Valued by Society?
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Statistic of the Month: Selecting, Training and Supporting Elementary School...
by Jennifer Craw In high-performing systems, rigorous standards for entry into the teaching profession ensure that only the most qualified individuals enter elementary school classrooms. In Finland,...
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Stat of the Month: Early Childhood Education Impact and Enrollment Trends
by Jennifer Craw For education systems around the world, increasing access to early childhood education (ECE) can both improve student learning outcomes and close gaps in achievement between...
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Statistic of the Month: Singapore Education at a Glance
by Jennifer Craw Learn about this tiny island nation with a world-class education system, including how many students attend school there, how much is spent per student, what the student teacher ratio...
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Stat of the Month: Paid Maternity Leave in Top Performing Countries
by Jennifer Craw One clear difference between the top-performing education systems and the United States is the level of support offered to young families even before children enter the school system....
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The U.S. Millennial Skills Gap: Technology and Problem Solving
by Jennifer Craw Transcript for screen readers: 20% of older adults (aged 55-64) in the U.S. are proficient at using technology and problem solving, the highest rate in the world. In other words,...
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Statistic of the Month: More Teaching, Less Learning?
by Jennifer Craw How much time do teachers have for professional learning vs. teaching? One of the main differences between the U.S. education system and the systems that outperform it in student...
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Statistic of the Month: High Achievement and Socioeconomically Diverse Schools
by Jennifer Craw Recently the OECD released a new report, Low-Performing Students: Why They Fall Behind and How to Help Them Succeed. Among its findings, the report shows a relationship between higher...
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