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Since 1988, NCEE has been researching the world’s best performing education systems to unlock their secrets.
Roundtable Discussion: Making Teaching a Profession
Mari Koerner, Marc Tucker, and Randi Weingarten, join host Jane Williams to discuss improving teacher training and pay on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg EDU." Click here to listen to the podcast.Implementing the Common Core State Standards
In his Education Week blog, Marc Tucker explains that while the new standards are a first step, if we are after the same kind of student performance we see in the top-performing countries, we will have to deploy a much wider range of strategies to get there. Click here to read the blog.American Dinosaurs: What's the Matter With Health Care and Education?
Welcome to America's biggest long-term challenge: Our medical and education industries are a two-headed hydra of economic inefficiency, over-eating our resources and under-serving our needy. Click here to read Marc Tucker's Op-ed in The Atlantic.The Twilight of the Civic Minded CEO
In the latest issue of Washington Monthly, editor in chief Paul Glastis talks with Marc Tucker, Robert Schwartz of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Susan Traiman, former director of public policy at the Business Roundtable, about why CEOs’ interest and engagement in school reform has waned over the past decade. Tucker recently wrote about this issue in a blog post titled, School-by-School vs. System Reform: Why Business Leaders Need to Go Back to the Future.Marc Tucker at GWU to discuss Surpassing Shanghai
After his keynote, Marc participated in a panel discussion led by GSEHD Dean Michael J. Feuer with panelists Dr. Colin Green, Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at GSEHD, and Dr. Laura Engel, Assistant Professor of International Education and International Affairs at GSEHD. Click here to watch the video.Marc Tucker on Horizon TV in Arizona
Marc joined host Ted Stevens to talk about Move on When Ready, Arizona's version of NCEE's Excellence for All program which is being piloted in Arizona High Schools. Click here to watch the video.
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NCEE's pilot school program, Excellence for All, brings the system of aligned instruction and examinations used by best-performing countries to U.S. high schools.
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