US think-tank the National Center on Education and the Economy this week launched a research centre to benchmark the world’s most successful education systems against each other. The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a Washington DC-based think-tank, this week launched a new research centre that will benchmark the world’s most successful education systems against each other.
The
Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) will analyse the policies and practices of countries whose students regularly top performance league tables in order to help improve education in developing countries.
The centre will share its findings through a new website while making recommendations to policymakers and educators.
NCEE president Marc Tucker said: “We created the CIEB to help countries around the world understand the principles, policies, and practices that top‐performing countries use to drive their education systems.
He added that because it is necessary to interpret the data, "in order to come to sound conclusions about their implications for policy and practice in one’s own country", the Center’s website and other activities will also serve as a forum in which leading experts can debate with one another.
CIEB users will be able to access overviews of each country’s education system, including its structure, historical development and policies, as well as information on how it approaches current issues.
NCEE has researched the education systems of top‐performing nations since 1988, as well as being commissioned to produce reports by the think tank the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (whose Indicators and Analysis division head, Andreas Schleicher, will be a CIEB advisor).
Among other projects, NCEE created the successful
America’s Choice School Design Program, a US school improvement service which was bought by global education publisher Pearson
for $80 million in 2010.
The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a Washington DC-based think-tank, this week launched a new research centre that will benchmark the world’s most successful education systems against each other.
The Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) will analyse the policies and practices of countries whose students regularly top performance league tables in order to help improve education in developing countries.
The centre will share its findings through a new website while making recommendations to policymakers and educators.
NCEE president Marc Tucker said: “We created the CIEB to help countries around the world understand the principles, policies, and practices that top‐performing countries use to drive their education systems.
He added that because it is necessary to interpret the data, “in order to come to sound conclusions about their implications for policy and practice in one’s own country”, the Center’s website and other activities will also serve as a forum in which leading experts can debate with one another.
CIEB users will be able to access overviews of each country’s education system, including its structure, historical development and policies, as well as information on how it approaches current issues.
NCEE has researched the education systems of top‐performing nations since 1988, as well as being commissioned to produce reports by the think tank the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (whose Indicators and Analysis division head, Andreas Schleicher, will be a CIEB advisor).
Among other projects, NCEE created the successful America’s Choice School Design Program, a US school improvement service which was bought by global education publisher Pearson for $80 million in 2010.
