On May 14th, the Center for American Progress released three new papers about how high-performing nations organize, manage, and fund their schools. Marc Tucker and Ben Jensen, who each authored one of the papers, joined Chester E. Finn, Jr., President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Lydia Logan, Managing Director for Chiefs for Change, and moderator Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress for a discussion on what U.S. schools can learn from other countries.

How did Shanghai's schools get so good? Foreign Policy looks at Ben Jensen's new report on school turnaround in Shanghai and Marc Tucker's report about international examples of school governance, each released by Center for American Progress to help policy makers in the United States learn how top-performing countries are able to improve educational outcomes and equality for their students.

Education Lessons From Around the World
U.S. News and World Report on Marc Tucker's and Ben Jensen's reports presented at the the Center for American Progress panel last week. "If we see a lot of countries…outperforming the United States at significant levels, doesn't it make sense to figure out what they are doing and learn from it?"

This was once true, but it has not been true for 20 years or more. Find out the truth behind this and other myths about US education which are simply not supported by the facts.