Top-Scoring Nations Share Strategies on Teachers

Washington

American education officials trying to learn from the policies and practices of top-performing nations seem to have two exemplary models in Singapore and Finland .

Yet in some respects, those two nations have risen to the top in very different ways.

That was one of the lessons that emerged yesterday at what was billed as the Global Education Competitiveness Summit, which brought state officials and business leaders together here to discuss lessons from high-achieving countries that could be applied to U.S. school systems—an omnipresent theme in American...