Can the U.S. learn from Australia’s high bar for new teachers?
A major ongoing fight in the U.S. is how to make the teaching profession less a clock-in, clock-out job and more like the high-paid, high-demand career of a lawyer or doctor. Unions and teachers argue...
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Skip school and lose welfare? The good and bad of Australia’s tough tactics...
What if the punishment for skipping school was a loss in welfare benefits for your family? It’s a strategy that some politicians are considering in the U.S. – plans have been floated in Missouri and...
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How is Australia beating the U.S. at graduating first-generation, low-income...
PARRAMATTA, Australia — Students in polos and plaids streamed into the auditorium at the University of Western Sydney as Lorde’s “Royals” blasted on repeat. While she sang about having “no post code...
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What U.S. schools can learn from Poland
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (kids.eb.com) By any measure, Poland has made remarkable education progress since the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the most recent 2012 international tests of...
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In Dutch schools, more time in school and more educator control
UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Last summer, when the Dutch government debated mandating that all schools provide three hours of physical education a week to students, Jasper Bunt, principal at a Montessori...
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In Brazil, fast-growing universities mirror U.S. wealth divide
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Her face and bare arms painted with the words “medicina” and “UFRJ” — her major and the acronym, in Portuguese, of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro — Ana Carolina and...
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The view from here: The battle to sustain school attendance in Guatemala
Editor's note This appeared first on the TES education news website. When the new term starts in January, 50 excited six-year-olds will join us for the first time. These children are from the...
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Can U.S. and U.K. higher ed systems scale up higher quality and cost...
Richard Garrett As countries the world over attempt bigger and better higher education systems to strengthen society and drive economic growth, the West is almost invariably the model — particularly...
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How Finland’s youngest learners obey the rules — by fooling around in school
Children in Eastern Finland in what is considered one of the most important activities of the day: recess. Photo: William Doyle It is lunch time at the University of Eastern Finland’s teacher training...
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U.S. ranks No. 13 in new collaborative problem-solving test
In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. The United States ranks much higher in collaborative problem-solving than in individual...
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