Marc Tucker recently spoke with Ben Jensen, School Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute in Australia, about Shanghai’s professional development system for teachers.  Ben is a highly regarded analyst and commenter on school education.  He previously worked at the OECD Ed

By Emily Wicken and Jackie Kraemer On May 14, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted an event, “What Can US Schools Learn from Other Countries,” during which Marc Tucker presented his new paper on education governance, and Ben Jensen, the director of the School Education Progra

Each week, the CIEB staff survey the education news from the world’s top performing systems.  We post a round up of the most important topics every Friday morning on the CIEB homepage.  Here are the issues that mattered most in global education news this past month: Policy Shifts Seve

By Jennifer Craw In 2012 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and America Achieves collaborated to launch a pilot of the OECD Test for Schools, a test based on PISA that allows participating high schools to compare their school level results with results f

Marc Tucker recently interviewed Kai-ming Cheng, Professor and Chair of Education and Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hong Kong, on the significance of his essay, Learning and society in a post-industrial era. Marc Tucker: In your essay, Learning and society