The broader context of school choice in Sweden
While Swedish education is not in the news nearly as often as it’s higher-performing neighbor, Finland, it only took a mention of school choice to launch a series of articles and blog posts on Sweden...
View ArticleOECD report on homework
OECD’s recent report “Does Homework Perpetuate Inequities in Education?” has generated a variety of articles in countries like the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Those stories mention the...
View ArticleTeaching time in the U.S.
In The Mismeasure of Teaching Time, Sam Abrams exposes the myth that teachers in the United States spend nearly twice as much time leading classes as teachers in many other OECD countries. Abrams,...
View ArticleThe “biggest-ever” league table?
The latest education report from the OECD ranks 76 countries according to the percentage of the population that lacks basic skills. The report, by Eric Hanushek of the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
View ArticleDoes preschool need PISA?
In his recent IOE Blog post, Peter Moss describes a new OECD study, called the International Early Learning Study (IELS), which is set to begin piloting in 2017. As Moss points out, while government...
View ArticleSCANNING THE HEADLINES FOR RESULTS FROM TALIS 2018: TEACHING, LEARNING, AND...
This week IEN provides a glimpse of how a few media outlets around the world have characterized the results from the OECD’s recent release of Volume II of the TALIS 2018 results, Teachers and School...
View ArticleThree Different Types of School Leadership for Learning: Results from TALIS 2018
Alex Bowers finds 3 different types of leadership for learning in analysis of data from TALIS 2018 Continue reading →
View ArticleScanning the headlines for results from OECD’s Education at a Glance:...
OECD’s Education at a Glance 2021 provides annual international comparisons of education statistics. This year, the report focuses on equity and also highlights the measures countries have implemented...
View ArticleScanning the headlines for results from OECD’s Education at a Glance: October...
This week, IEN scans the headlines of stories reporting on OECD’s Education at a Glance for 2022. OECD’s Education at a Glance 2022 provides an annual overview of comparative education statistics. The...
View ArticleHappy New Year from IEN!
IEN will be taking a break over New Year’s returning with our first stories of the year on January 9th. In the meantime, please revisit some of our most viewed stories of the year and have a restful,...
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