{"id":8348,"date":"2017-12-13T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2017-12-08T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T00:36:19","slug":"empowered-educators-webinar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/empowered-educators-webinar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowered Educators Webinar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The world is changing and so are its schools. \u00a0In recognition of the need to prepare students for an evolving and increasingly interconnected world, a growing number of countries have remodeled their education systems to deliver an education built for the 21st century, producing higher achievement and greater equity than the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

How are they doing it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the strategies these systems have pursued, none have been more important than the policies they have developed to ensure that high-quality teaching takes place in every classroom, in every school, for every child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Empowered Educators is a landmark, international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world’s top-performing education systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the support of the Center on International Benchmarking at the National Center on Education and the Economy, one of the world’s preeminent education researchers, Linda Darling-Hammond launched the work from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) at Stanford University. Darling-Hammond, now leading the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) in Palo Alto, CA, drew together a global team of education researchers in the three-year study, producing unparalleled insights for U.S. educators, researchers and policymakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers investigated seven jurisdictions across four continents. \u00a0Their findings reveal two principle answers to the central question of how other countries have surpassed the U.S. in preparing their students to compete in the 21st century global economy:<\/span><\/p>\n