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 matter most in global education news this month: Education Equity The issu

This is a second version of this article intended to correct an error made in the first version.* By Marc Tucker My apologies to Maimonides.  But I would not blame you if you were perplexed about the recent dust-up after the latest PIRLS and TIMSS data came out.  Some of the best-know

Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor for Education at Asia Society and CIEB International Advisory Board Member, reports on the proceedings of the inaugural meeting of the Global Cities Education Network, held in Hong Kong. The 21st century will be the century of cities, according to some o

Marc Tucker interviews Ray Marshall on the links between immigration policy and education policy.  Marshall is Professor Emeritus and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texa

Starting well: Benchmarking early education across the world is a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by the Lien Foundation in Singapore.  The authors of Starting well interviewed early childhood education practitioners, researchers and policymakers in order

The new report, Starting well, by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Lien Foundation profiled in our Global Perspectives section this month urges the importance of having strong early childhood education systems in place in order to ensure future success in school.  The OEC

Many of us think that we learn all we need to know about reading in school but a new report from the OECD provides a rare glimpse at the way many young people continue to improve their reading proficiency after graduation.  Some of this unfolds pretty much as you would expect, but som

One challenge shared by many countries as they work toward improving student performance is insuring that new immigrants are provided the kind and quality of education needed for success.  Often, these students, who may speak different languages at school and at home, and who may come

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 A

The relationship between socio-economic status and performance is complex.  It has been tackled by education researchers over the years in an attempt to explain why some countries are more able than others to moderate the impact that socio-economic status can have on a student’s schoo