International
Education news, analysis, and opinion about education internationally and comparisons between the U.S. and other countries
Federal
Opinion
Five Ways to Build an Asset-Based Mindset in Education Partnerships
When creating partnerships with other schools, how do we approach them with a positive, asset-based mindset?
Federal
Opinion
Empowering Educators as Leaders in the Global Education Movement
How to develop students as global leaders.
Federal
Here's What the U.S. Can Learn About Teaching Quality From Top Countries
Education researcher Linda Darling-Hammond's new book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality, studies how seven high-performing jurisdictions recruit, develop, and support high-quality teachers.
Federal
Q&A
Joyful Schools: What One U.S. Educator Learned From Teaching in Finland
A U.S. educator unpacks the lessons teachers can draw from Finnish classrooms—including the secret to joyful teaching and happier students.
Federal
Opinion
Innovative Latin American School Design Coming to California
Columbia's highly successful Escuela Nueva: featuring cooperative, personalized, active learning is coming to the United States, maybe to a school near you, write Tom Luschei and Sarah Smith Orr.
Federal
Video
Are American Schools Too Easy for Exchange Students?
Foreign exchange students have a unique perspective on education in the U.S. They say U.S. schools are easier than those abroad.
Federal
News in Brief
Toronto District Stops Booking U.S. Travel
Canada's largest school district will no longer book any trips to the United States because of fears students might have trouble at the border stemming from travel restrictions enacted by President Donald Trump.
Federal
Exchange Students View U.S. Schools as 'Easier' Than Those Abroad
According to new survey results, not much has changed over the last 15 years in how foreign exchange students perceive U.S. high schools.
Federal
Video
Egypt’s Education Minister on U.S. Partnerships
Tarek Shawki is very familiar with how education works in both Egypt and the United States. The new minister of education for Egypt earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Brown University in Rhode Island, spent a year as a postdoctoral research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then served as a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics for 13 years at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, according to The American University in Cairo, where he had previously served as dean of the School of Sciences and Engineering. Now in charge of an education system that serves about 21 million students and more than a million teachers, Shawki is facing the challenge of helping educators and schools in his country adjust to the digital age. In this video, Shawki talks about the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, an education initiative in his country that includes several U.S.-based education companies as partners.
Federal
Opinion
Eight Ways Parents Can Develop Global Competence at Home
Global education begins at home, says parent and concerned global citizen, Jennifer Ghymn.
Federal
Opinion
A Glimpse Into Canada's Practices Helps Us Examine Our Own
A report on professional learning in Canada provides insights we can use.
Federal
Opinion
Trump's Travel Ban: Global Competence or Incompetence?
If the travel ban were a piece of student work, would it be graded as globally competent?
Federal
Opinion
Advice for Betsy DeVos From Canada
A Canadian perspective on public education could be helpful to Betsy DeVos as she becomes ed. secretary, writes Beth Green of Cardus.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
The Legacy of Michelle Obama and the Let Girls Learn Initiative
How the Let Girls Learn campaign—a signature initiative of Mrs. Obama—is empowering girls around the world.