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by Dirk Van DammeHead of the Innovation and Measuring Progress Division, Directorate for Education and Skills   What do we have to do to ensure that all children and adults around the world get the best possible education? This question is important not only for individuals’ futures, but also for the fate of the planet. The outcomes of education will determine whether mankind will...

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by Florian KösterAnalyst, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD Today’s education systems need to adapt practices to local diversity while ensuring common goals. Given the complexity of modern education systems, seemingly straightforward changes may result in unexpected consequences, making effective production, use and exchange of knowledge – policy-relevant know-how – across the system indispensable. Good governance requires opening up the knowledge system to a...

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by Marilyn AchironEditor, Directorate for Education and SkillsPut a complicated algebraic equation or geometry problem in front of a 15-year-old student (or, for that matter, just about anyone) and you can almost see the brain at work: I. Can’t. Do.This.Most of us have found ourselves in this situation at one point or another. But many students, particularly students from disadvantaged backgrounds, have never...

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