Tucker’s Lens: The GERM and its Treatment – On Reading Sahlberg, Hargreaves and Fullan
Twenty-seven years ago, I had the privilege of serving as staff director and report author for the Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession. We released our report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century, in the spring of 1986. The message of the report was clear enough. The United States had built [...]
Global Perspectives: An Interview with Ben Jensen, Author of a Recently Released Report on Learning from East Asian Education Systems
This month, Betsy Brown Ruzzi, Director of the Center on International Education Benchmarking, interviewed Ben Jensen of Australia’s Grattan Institute about the Institute’s most recent report, Catching up: Learning from the best school systems in East Asia. Jensen is Director of the School Education Program at the Grattan Institute, an independent public policy think tank [...]
International Reads: Major School Funding Study Released in Australia
Following the release in late 2010 of the PISA 2009 results, the Australian government, unhappy with how the nation stacked up against other high performing countries in Asia and Europe, commissioned a report to determine what changes, if any, were necessary in how schools in Australia are funded. The Review of Funding for Schooling Final [...]
Education Benchmarking Meetings
Transforming Education Summit 2012 May 7-9, 2012, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates This summit offers a platform to share lessons learned on how to deliver relevant education to young people more effectively in a rapidly changing global society. Keynote speakers will include former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Former President of Finland Tarja Halonen, Malaysian [...]
Statistic of the Month: Student Performance on PISA by Months Ahead of OECD Average
In their recent report published in February of this year, the Grattan Institute examined the school systems of several East Asian countries with a view towards drawing policy recommendations from what they learned for Australia. In the report, titled Catching Up: Learning from the best school systems in East Asia (and featured in last month’s [...]
News from CIEB
Last month, The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) hosted an event focused on how the United States can learn from the world’s most successful education systems. Marc Tucker discussed his latest book, Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems. Following his address, Dean [...]
Tucker’s Lens: Reflections from the International Summit on the Teaching Profession
I left the second International Summit on the Teaching Profession not at all sure of what I had learned. But, after a few days to sort it out, there is quite a lot. Here it goes — 1. Swiftly broadening goals I was struck by the way many of the top-performing countries talked about their [...]
Global Perspectives: Vivien Stewart, Pasi Sahlberg, and Lee Sing Kong Discuss Teacher Quality
On March 9, 2012, Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor for Education at the Asia Society, conducted a roundtable discussion on teacher quality issues with Lee Sing Kong, Director of the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Pasi Sahlberg, Director General of the National Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation (CIMO) at the Finnish Ministry of [...]
International Reads: New Program at the World Bank Benchmarking Education Systems
As part of their comprehensive set of education initiatives and strategies, the World Bank has recently created a System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results (SABER) program that seeks to determine the policies that predict success in national (or sub-national) education systems. Over the next few years, SABER will collect a full complement of data [...]
Education Benchmarking Meetings and News
Recent Conferences of Note The Future of the Teaching Profession February 16-17, 2012, Cambridge, UK Leadership for Learning (LFL) hosted this two-day event at the Møller Centre in Cambridge, which explored research and policy in relation to teacher quality and the development of the teaching profession. Planned with EI (the global federation of teacher organizations), [...]
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