How Franklin School became a Platinum-certified Best School to Work after building a great school culture
School Culture & Leadership
January 16, 2025
Franklin School, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, was one of the first schools to enrol on the Best School to Work programme and, with its focus on enabling students to
Solving the crisis in student disengagement: Interview with Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, authors of The Disengaged Teen
Learning Science
January 8, 2025
It was fears for their own children’s learning that brought award-winning former New York Times journalist, Jenny Anderson, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at the
Andreas Schleicher, Omar A. Al Futtaim, and Aisha Miran among leading figures convening in Dubai for inaugural World Schools Summit
Future Ready Skills, Learning Science, School Culture & Leadership, Tech, Wellbeing
November 19, 2024
Leading figures including the OECD’s Andreas Schleicher, Omar A. Al Futtaim, Vice Chairman & CEO of Al-Futtaim Group, and HE Aisha Miran, Director General of the KHDA, will convene at
The World’s Best School Prizes 2024 winners
Community Collaboration, Environmental Education, Health & Wellbeing, Inclusion & Equity
October 23, 2024
Thousands of applications and nominations, 50 shortlisted schools, 15 trailblazing finalists for the third edition of the world’s number one education awards. And it all comes down to this. It’s
Unveiling the Top 3 Finalist schools for the World’s Best School Prizes 2024
September 18, 2024
It’s time to reveal which schools have made it into the Top 3 for the World’s Best School Prizes 2024. Each one of these 15 inspirational institutions across the five
Latin America’s education leaders offer new solutions to enduring challenges
Environmental Education, Inclusion & Equity, Tech
September 10, 2024
Alongside Africa and Asia, Latin America contains some of the highest levels of learning poverty in the world. This has only been compounded by some of the world’s longest school
How leaders are rising to the challenges and opportunities in Asian education
Inclusion & Equity, Learning Science, Tech
August 29, 2024
From some of the highest rates of learning poverty in the world to the highest-performing education systems in the world, Asia shows the tremendous challenges to be overcome, but is
The four great challenges leaders in African education are tackling
Future-Ready Skills, Inclusion & Equity
August 16, 2024
Education is the key to Africa’s future. But despite the gains in the decades leading up to the pandemic, it is here that learning gaps remain widest and learning poverty
Enabling achievement for disadvantaged students: Interview with Alex Crossman, co-author of Greater Expectations
Learning Science
June 25, 2024
Learning gaps remain stubbornly persistent across the world, even in wealthy economies such as the UK where it will take 560 years to close the attainment gap at GCSE and
Giving teachers a voice: Interview with Dr Fred Mednick, author of In the Small Places
Professional Learning, School Culture & Leadership
April 10, 2024
Dr Fred Mednick, Professor Emeritus in Education Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, founded Teachers Without Borders in 2000 to connect teachers to information and to each other. The aim was