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Focus On: Education

How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better

This report, the most comprehensive database of global school system reform ever assembled, analyzes and identifies reform elements to help school systems achieve significant, sustained and widespread gains in student outcomes.  Read more

Key Insights

Education for employment

Realizing Arab youth potential through education that leads to improved employment prospects.

50%A study showed that student performance could diverge by more than 50% based on the level of teacher performance they were exposed to.
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Beyond the classroom

Some of the funds required to improve teacher quality may already be in a school system’s budget – they just need to be found and reallocated.

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No silver bullets

The quality of teachers is one of the most significant determinants of student success, so school districts pursuing better outcomes should consider ten best practices in talent management.

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Video: Sir Michael Barber at the NGA

Governors think globally to improve education. Using other high-performing countries as a guide, the nation’s governors discussed concrete action steps to improve education in their states today.

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McKinsey Quarterly on Education

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