Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Big Data, EdReform, EduBusiness, Educationalists, Exams, In The News, OECD, PISA, Schools, Teaching, Technology, Testing, Waldorf Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Andreas Schleicher works out of the OECD in Paris, and is best known for the the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), “a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” According to a January 2010 presentation given to the Quality of Childhood Group […]
Posted by Editors Academies, ARK, CfBT, Charter Schools, EdReform, EduBusiness, Free Schools, In The News, League Tables, Management Consultants, McKinsey & Co., OECD, Ofsted, PISA, Research, Teach First, Teach for America, Teach for Australia, Testing, Unions Monday, June 30th, 2014
We were a little undecided as to whether or not to write this post because of the youthfulness of those involved in Lessons from London Schools: Investigating the Success (LLS), the study that we will critique, and not wanting for youthful enthusiasm to be overly dampened by what is to be said about the LLS […]
Posted by Editors EduBusiness, In The News, Labour, OECD, PISA, Teach First, Teaching Monday, May 14th, 2012
The BBC report that the UK Shadow (in the broadest sense of the term) Secretary for Education, Stephen Twigg, believes “England’s schools should learn from Japan”. He obviously hasn’t been reading the Economist recently. “THE yells of children pierce the night, belting out the elements—“Lithium! Magnesium!”—as an instructor displays abbreviations from the periodic table. Next, […]
Posted by Editors In The News, MetLife, Ofsted, PISA, Standards, Working Conditions Thursday, March 15th, 2012
While in the UK OFSTASI’s Wilshaw spouts further drivel about declining literacy standards, across the pond in the US a very illuminating survey of teachers has attracted a lot of recent attention, not least because it shows just how dissatisfied teachers currently are. The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Teachers, Parents and the Economy […]
Posted by Editors In The News, PISA, Research Sunday, June 19th, 2011
The OECD’s PISA IN FOCUS 2011/5 (June) publication offers yet more evidence that there is no evidence that poverty has the impact on education achievement that some would have us believe. We normally take what the OECD has to say about education with a pinch of salt given its overriding aim to ‘liberalise’ economies around […]
