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Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals in Singapore
"The Singapore education system relies on a high quality teaching profession to achieve its aim for the nation." -- Dr. Pak Tee Ng Part 3 of “In Search of Professionals” In their new book, Professional...
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TIMSS Results Show US Lags Behind International Peers
American fourth-graders are performing much better compared to students in other countries than they did four years ago, according to data released as part of the Trends in International Mathematics...
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US Students No Better than Average in Math and Science
Lawmakers, education advocates and even business experts all worry that the quality of America’s education system could knock it out of economic contention in the coming decades. According to John...
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Hoover Releases List of Most, Least Covered Topics in Education
After analyzing the coverage of education by major media outlets in 2012, the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education released a list of the issues that received what they saw as...
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Did US Students Perform Better on PISA Than We Thought?
A new report out of the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Economic Policy Institute claims that a misreading of data has led people to conclude that U.S. students are underperforming their...
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Israel Has 5th Largest Rich-Poor Achievement Gap in the World
According to a new study based on the results of international math and science tests, Israel is in the top five of the countries where the academic gap between the students from rich and poor parents...
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English Students Lag International Peers by Nearly 2 Years
Not even the brightest students in England are performing as well in academics as their similarly talented peers in the Far East, according to a study from the University of London’s Institute of...
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Brookings’ Brown Center Report Surveys State of US Ed
Brookings Institution has released the 12th edition of its annual Brown Center Report which examines the state of education in the United States. This year’s report examines the results of the...
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NCES: Science and Math Test Scores Show Disparities Between States
Until recently, the performance of US 8th grade students in science and math had been almost universally judged negatively. Compared to their international counterparts, their abilities in these...
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