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Chief Learning Officer
March 5, 2018
I'm not certain whether that's the ideal age to slot a student for a potentially lifelong career, but I do agree with Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, who advocates for making 10th grade the target for being college or career ready. According to Tucker, if students canÃâà...
WCBC Radio
February 15, 2018
Supported in this work by the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) and, on school finance issues, by Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, the Commission has held 21 public meetings to date during which over 200 people testified. Students, parents, expert researchers, advocates forÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
February 1, 2018
I recently came across a rather acid attack on the methods used by people like me who argue that the U.S. education system is less efficient than the systems of other countries. Published by the Albert Shanker Institute, the piece in question is "Deconstructing the Myth of American Public SchoolingÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
January 25, 2018
Bernie Sanders, the likely 2020 Democratic candidate, says the problem with the economy is the fat cats who have rigged it for their benefit. He wants to unleash a progressive tax schedule on them and use the funds produced to stuff the wild inequalities in American income back in their box. Donald TrumpÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
January 18, 2018
For a great many students in American schools, school begins in elementary school with failure at a walk and ends in high school with failure at a gallop. It starts when they first arrive at the schoolhouse door, already far behind. How can they be behind you might ask, when they are at the starting line of theÃâà...
EdSource
December 14, 2017
Over the past four months, the National Center on Education and the Economy, or NCEE, has hosted an “Empowered Educators” webinar series based on an international comparative study of teachers and teaching quality in top-performing education systems around the world. The programs, which featureÃâà...
The Detroit News
November 1, 2017
Editor's Note: Last fall, Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, shared with the Governor's Commission on 21st Century Education how the leading education nations in the world built their public school systems. His presentation, “9 Building Blocks for a World-ClassÃâà...
news.delaware.gov
October 25, 2017
The case study, authored by National Center on Education and the Economy Senior Editor Robert Rothman, lauds Delaware's strong and diverse partnership that includes the K-12 system, businesses, higher education, and community agencies and organizations. Delaware's collaborative nature, ability toÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
October 19, 2017
NCEE came to the conclusion almost 20 years ago that school leadership development is the most efficient driver of comprehensive school reform available. As the old saw has it, none of us had ever seen a great school led by an incompetent principal, but many had seen poor schools turned around byÃâà...
The Atlantic
August 24, 2017
Conflicting interests pose a real challenge for policymakers, says Marc Tucker, the president and chief executive of the National Center on Education and the Economy, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. In the short-term there are legitimate concerns over protecting a community's economic engine,Ãâà...
