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28-Aug-2008
Good teachers are the number one factor for excellence in student achievement but next comes high-quality leadership. Governments must do more to recruit and train the best people to run schools, according to a new OECD publication - Improving School Leadership.
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07-May-2008
The reports: Improving School Leadership: Policy and Practice; and Improving School Leadership: Case Studies and Concepts for Systemic Action, provide information and analysis to help policy makers formulate and implement school leadership policies leading to improved teaching and learning. Drawing on related literature and PISA data, the publications are based on country background reports by the participating countries and five case studies on innovative practices in (a) school leadership for systemic improvement and (b) training and development of school leaders.
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26-Feb-2008
The OECD and World Bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding over the coming five years to co-operate on the gathering of prevalence data on children with disabilities. The intention is to provide data to inform planning to achieve the Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3. These focus on achieving universal completion of primary education by 2015 and promoting the education of girls.
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School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Level of Student Achievement: International Evidence from PISA 2003 (EDU Working Paper No. 13)
22-Jan-2008
Accountability, autonomy, and choice play a leading role in recent school reforms in many countries. This report provides new evidence on whether students perform better in school systems that have such institutional measures in place.
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19-Sep-2006
19/09/2006 - A new OECD report on early childhood policy, Starting Strong II, shows that more countries are making early childhood education and care a priority, with greater attention paid to service quality. Increasingly, it shows, the early years are viewed as the first step in lifelong learning and a key to successful social, family and education policies.
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17-Jul-2006
The first workshop of participating countries and an international conference on International Perspectives on School Leadership for Systemic Improvement were held in the HSBC headquarters in London, last July 5-6, 2006.
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10-Feb-2006
As a follow-up to recommendations from the two reviews on China which had an important impact on legislation and policy development in the sector, the OECD is aiming to strengthen research capacity on tertiary education finance and quality. The goal of this activity is a long-term research collaboration between Chinese and Swiss universities and research institutions on policy issues of mutual interest in the domain of education development and governance.
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20-Jan-2006
Report by the Danish Technological Institute on three international surveys among school-aged children : OECD-PISA, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
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20-Jan-2006
Paper setting out ideas for the structure of future PISA assessments from the PISA 2009 cycle and beyond.
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20-Jan-2006
Summary of the results of the OECD's Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo) Project which provides a framework that could guide the longer-term extension of PISA assessments into new competency domains.
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