{"id":289,"date":"2007-10-20T19:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T11:40:32","slug":"how-to-build-a-better-education-system-lessons-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/how-to-build-a-better-education-system-lessons-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How to build a better education system &#8211; lessons from around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/locations\/ukireland\/publications\/leadership\/\">McKinsey<\/a> examines the common characteristics of school systems producing students who perform well on international tests. <a href=\"http:\/\/mckinseyonsociety.com\/how-the-worlds-best-performing-schools-come-out-on-top\/\">How the World&#8217;s Best Performing School Systems Come Out on Top (9.46 MB pdf)<\/a>.\u00a0 Their conclusions are not rocket science but do help clarify myths and reality.\u00a0 Getting good teachers depends more on how you select them than on how much they are paid; it becomes a career choice for top graduates.\u00a0 Ongoing teacher training helps.\u00a0 early intervention when things go wrong helps.\u00a0 And with the right policies neither schools nor students need lag behind.<\/p>\n<p>The report is worth reading offerng good examples, data and sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by McKinsey examines the common characteristics of school systems producing students who perform well on international tests. How the World&#8217;s Best Performing School Systems Come Out on Top (9.46 MB pdf).\u00a0 Their conclusions are not rocket science but do help clarify myths and reality.\u00a0 Getting good teachers depends more on how you &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/how-to-build-a-better-education-system-lessons-from-around-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to build a better education system &#8211; lessons from around the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}