Greg Whitby, executive director of schools for the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, hosts this short Learning Conversations video on next steps for system-wide improvement with Sir Michael Barber at the Pearson’s Global Research Conference.

More than four years have passed since the expiration of the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 2001–more popularly known as No Child Left Behind (or NCLB). Despite broad agreement that the law needs amending, Congress is still struggling to develop the specifics of that consensus. The reauthorization will require several decisions about standards, assessments, reporting requirements, and school improvement initiatives. In this video, RAND experts offer recommendations…

This Edutopia video discusses how early intervention and sustained individual support for every student are keys to educating the whole child in Finnish schools. The video, part of the Education Everywhere series, was produced in partnership with the Pearson Foundation.

This eight-minute video gives a brief overview of the Assessment & Teaching of 21st-Century Skills (ATC21S) project, followed by a detailed description of the skills involved in collaborative problem solving (CPS). It then delivers a comprehensive explanation of the CPS tasks created for the ATC21S project, as well as the behind-the-scenes data that these taks can generate.

In this GOOD Future Learning video, Catherine Lucey, Vice Dean of Education at the University of Calfornia, San Francisco, School of Medicine, shows how integrating technology aids the faculty in training the next generation of compassionate, skillful physicians.

In this Learning Without Frontiers video, noted linguist, philosopher, and historian Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, the impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or as an investment, and the value of standardized assessment. 

This video provides an overview of the Assessment & Teaching of 21st-Century Skills (ATC21S) collaborative problem solving (CPS) tasks, showing them in use at a participating school in Australia. It previews the ways in which ATC21S is developing tools to measure 21st-century skills such as CPS, as well as the types of behind-the-scenes data the organization’s tools can generate.

In this RAND Corporation video, Laura Hamilton discusses what has been learned in the 10 years since No Child Left Behind (the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act) was signed into law in 2002, including recommendations for addressing key limitations,