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1985
NCEE opens its doors as the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, a program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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1986
The Forum’s Task Force on Teaching as a Profession releases its report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century. Recommends the creation of a national board to raise standards and professionalize teaching.
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1987
The Forum designs and launches the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and NCEE is officially started with funds from the Carnegie Corporation.
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1988
NCEE opens an office in Rochester, NY, and begins work with the Rochester City School District and the State of New York on reforming the education system based on its ideas in A Nation Prepared.
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1989
NCEE begins benchmarking the education systems around the world. NCEE creates the National Alliance for Restructuring Education and The Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.
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1990
NCEE releases the report America's Choice: high skills or low wages! whose recommendations are used to develop education and workforce development legislation in states and at the federal level including the National Skill Standards Board.
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1991
NCEE invites the University of Pittsburgh, 23 states, six cities and three national foundations to join with it in creating New Standards, national performance standards and assessments in the core subjects and in applied learning.
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1992
NCEE establishes the Workforce Development Program to help states implement ideas such as Workforce Investment Boards first described in NCEE’s report, America’s Choice: high skills or low wages!
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1992
NCEE President Marc Tucker and former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall co-author Thinking For A Living: Education And The Wealth Of Nations, this book explains how families, communities, and most of all businesses can maximize the skills of our work force through an aggressive educational policy that actually contributes to the effectiveness of our most valuable resource: people.
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1995
NCEE releases Building a System to Invest in People: States on the Cutting-Edge, which identified best practices in state workforce development.
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1997
NCEE’s headquarters moves from Rochester, NY to Washington, DC.
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1998
NCEE redesigned its National Alliance for Restructuring Education program and creates the America's Choice School Design Program – designs and supports for highly effective education systems based on NCEE’s international benchmarking. Jossey Bass publishes NCEE’s book, Standards for our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them.
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2002
NCEE launches the National Institute for School Leadership, an organization that trains practicing school principals to lead high-performing schools. NCEE President Marc Tucker and former President and CEO of American’s Choice Judy Codding co-author The Principal Challenge, a book examining the causes and cures of the crisis in school leadership.
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2005
NCEE creates the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce to examine the changing global economy and its implications for education reform in the United States.
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2006
The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce releases its report Tough Choices or Tough Times, which recommends the overhaul of the US education system including bringing worldclass instructional systems to US schools and greatly raising teacher quality.
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2010
NCEE sells America's Choice to Pearson and moves the Workforce Development Program to Jobs for the Future. NCEE begins a new international benchmarking effort to identify the common principles used by top-performing education systems and forms the Consortium on Board Examination Systems. Later that year, NCEE releases Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education, a report produced under the supervision of the OECD and at the request of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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2011
Harvard Education Press releases NCEE’s book, Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the World’s Leading Systems. COBES is renamed the Excellence for All program and launches its pilot program in four states.
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2012
NCEE launches the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) to help US policymakers and educators around the world understand the principles, policies, and practices that top-performing countries use to drive their education systems.