Today, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). PISA is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. In 2015, over half a million students in 72 countries and economies were assessedContinue reading “PISA Results: Which Countries Improved Most?”
TIMSS 2015: Which Countries Improved Most?
This week, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) released the sixth installment of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), an analysis of secondary school students in math and science. More than 600,000 students from 60 countries and benchmarking regions participated. The headlines came quickly: Some positive: “These areContinue reading “TIMSS 2015: Which Countries Improved Most?”
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Vietnam: More young children are ready for school With the support of World Bank funding and expertise, Vietnam has expanded access to full-day preschool from 66 percent (2012) to 86 percent of five-year-old children (2016). It has also improved the quality of preschool instruction by providing professional development for a large number of EarlyContinue reading “News and Research 20”
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Education Financing Priorities | Report to the Education Commission (http://report.educationcommission.org/download/803/) We used the latest household surveys in 15 low, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries to estimate the private and social returns to investment in education using the full discounting method. The returns are higher in low income countries where the quantity of schooling is scarcer.Continue reading “News and Research 19”
Returns to schooling higher than alternative investments
Returns to schooling higher than alternative investments Education Commission Report Background Paper by Psacharopoulos, Montenegro and Patrinos http://report.educationcommission.org/download/803/
GPE: Investing in Early Years Learning
Investing in Early Years Learning “Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.” —James Heckman Blog – November 14, 2016 by Harry Anthony Patrinos| Investments in the early years of children’s lives and in the first grades of their education are among theContinue reading “GPE: Investing in Early Years Learning”
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Exploring the impact of career models on teacher motivation …The most common career structure in both developed and developing countries is the single salary structure, in which teachers’ pay increases yearly, irrespective of teaching quality. The only other factors taken into account in calculating pay are additional qualifications, and promotions to administrative positions. Problems withContinue reading “News and Research 18”
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Investing in early years learning: It can be done! PEARL program, World Bank implemented-GPE -funded, promotes Early Years Learning and Early Reading Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. —James Heckman Investments in the early years of children’s lives and in theContinue reading “News and Research 17”
Investing in Early Years Learning
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. —James Heckman Investments in the early years of children’s lives and in the first grades of their education are among the most important actions governments can take. So said the Prime Minister and Minister of EducationContinue reading “Investing in Early Years Learning”
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Early Years Learning Workshop Opens in Tonga A regional training workshop to support school readiness and reading for Pacific children and teachers has kicked off today in Nuku’alofa with opening remarks from Mr. Claude Tupou, Education CEO at the Ministry of Education and Training. This is the second regional training workshop in as many yearsContinue reading “News and Research 16”
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