McKinsey & Co. Report On World School Systems…..

it out. The report looked at countries in the OECD and that have taken the Program for International Student Assessment exam.

They say the USA and even the countries in the OECD have spent more on education and that school system performance in those countries is not up.

The report gets into quality teachers being important. On study they cite from schools in Dallas said that the difference in students who got three effective teachers in a row vs students who got the ineffective teachers in a row was 49 percentile points. They cite a study on England students saying that failing students at age 14 had only a 6% change of meeting the minimum school-leaving qualifications.

They say that top school systems pick teachers that graduate at the top of the class from colleges. Same thing done in the US with the Teaching Fellows program.

In Singapore only 1 in 6 get to become a teacher while it is only 1 in 10 in Finland. The high performing school systems have a tougher selection process says that report. In Singapore less than 20% of people that apply to want to be teachers get into training.

The report gets into salary and a couple of sections talking about different topics. I think this is a must read report.