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Students enter the Kirkkojärvi School in Espoo, Finland. The school is among those featured in an exhibit that highlights the country's move away from factory-style schools to contemporary campuses built to meet the pedagogical and social needs of their students and teachers.
—Stuart W. Conway

Finland Rethinks Factory-Style School Buildings

A new exhibit highlights efforts in Finland to design schools tailored to the learning needs of students and teachers. (July 6, 2012)

Top Performers Blog

08/01 09:51 am | Dialogue With Dylan Wiliam on Teacher Quality: Part II | A guest post from Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of London's Institute of Education, on how teacher expertise is developed.

Global Learning Blog

07/25 09:18 am | The Global-Learning Twitterati | Literati, derived from Latin, means "acquainted with letters." In historical times, it referred a well-educated class who held an elite status in society. Twitterati are well ...

Democracy and Education Blog

07/11 03:25 pm | The State of Public Education; The State of Movements for Human Rights | As I announced yesterday, we are moving this blog to a new livelier format at Participatory Democracy and Public Education.  I want to take the opportunity of this last blog ...

On-Demand Webinar

E-Learning Goes Global
This webinar examined the state of online learning internationally and highlight various countries moving ahead in this arena.

Chat Transcripts

What U.S. Schools Can Learn From High-Performing Countries
This chat examined the United States’ mediocre showing on recent international tests, and what those results mean.

E-Learning Creates Foreign Connections
Our guests in this chat shared their experiences establishing meaningful connections between their schools in the United States and schools in other countries.

Special Collection

Quality Counts 2012
The 16th edition of Education Week's annual report looks at America's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high-performing countries.

Multimedia

Quality Counts 2012: A Multimedia Presentation

Why is it important to study schools from other countries? Watch videos on the subject and listen to Education Week's reporters who studied the issue at large for Quality Counts 2012.

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But performance falls well short of several East Asian countries in math, science. January 4, 2013 – Education Week
Educators Tout IB's Links to Common Core
International Baccalaureate educators say their program offers a base for designing curriculum units that align with the new Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English/language arts. December 21, 2012 | Updated: January 10, 2013 – Education Week
The United States has gained ground against countries that are top performers in the 2011 PIRLS, or Progress in International Reading Literacy Skills, improving to far above the international average, the latest results show. December 11, 2012 – Education Week
Shrinking budgets and unrelenting demands for higher achievement are threatening education, but education around the world is still better than ever, says Ben Levin. December 7, 2012 – Education Week
A flagship Manhattan location is one of about 20 private schools worldwide that the Edison Schools co-founder plans to roll out over the next 15 years. September 25, 2012 – Education Week
September 18, 2012 – Education Week
In a study of 38 of the world's leading economies, the United States ranks 28th in the share of 4-year-olds attending preschool. September 11, 2012 – Education Week
There are doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the cost. July 17, 2012 – Education Week
Yong Zhao asks how leaders can push for both entrepreneurial thinking and high standardized-test scores in schools. July 17, 2012 – Education Week
Averages on international assessments are at odds with the gender gaps seen between American girls and boys in science and math. July 13, 2012 – Education Week

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