In OECD's newly released Teaching and Learning International Survey, educators in 23 countries shed light on teaching, learning, and leadership in their schools.
Since 2000, through the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has tracked the performance of education systems of industrialized nations throughout the world. Results from PISA show that some countries succeed in securing high and equitable learning outcomes as well as rapid school improvements.
Such comparisons can inform national efforts to improve teaching and learning by providing information on the results achieved by national, state, and district evaluation policies. We know much less, however, about how school principals and teachers actually implement specific policies and practices.
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