My colleagues Vivien Stewart, Betsy Brown Ruzzi and I returned from another visit to Singapore a few weeks ago, 23 years after my first visit.  Each visit is dazzling.  None has yet disappointed.  In a way, a visit to Singapore is like benchmarking the rest of the world through this o

In 2011, Singapore was ranked the best country in the world to do business by the World Bank and was also ranked first in the world in investment potential in the 2011 Business Environment Risk Intelligence report.  Singapore receives high marks from both the World Economic Forum (ran

OECD Education Working Papers. (2012), “Immigrant Status and Secondary School Performance as Determinants of Post-Secondary Participation: A Comparison of Canada and Switzerland.” Here’s a puzzle:  First- and second-generation students in Canada are both 18 percent more likely than st

Click here to view the full graphic Recently, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) released a study on teacher preparation in seventeen countries.  This study, Policy, Practice, and Readiness to Teach Primary and Secondary Mathematics in 17

Marc Tucker recently travelled to Chattanooga, TN to participate in the Southern Growth Policies Conference hosted by Governor Bill Haslam.  News Channel Nine covered the event and reported on some of the pertinent workforce issues in the region. An op-ed in the State Journal (WV), re