How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better

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Teacher quality and school improvement: what is the role of research? (2015, background): “Organisational measures are in place in Boston, Japan and Finland, where teachers are given time for joint planning and analysis of teaching practices (Mourshed et al, 2010).”
Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “91 See, for example, Barber and Mourshed (2007); Mourshed et al. (2011); Sahlberg (2011); Vegas et al. (2012).”
Globalisation, Neoliberalism, and the Reform of Teacher Education in England (2013, background): “Sir Michael Barber, who was responsible for many of the market driven reforms of the new Labour government, was a key contributor to both of the highly infl uential McKinsey (Barber & Mourshed, 2007; Mourshed et al., 2010) reports.”
Generic and Specific Skills as Components of Human Capital: New Challenges for Education Theory and Practice (2019, background): “According to McKinsey, most countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) doubled or tripled expenditures on education in real prices between 1970 and 1994 [Barber et al., 2011, p. 20].”
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality. Working Paper 56. (2010, background): “Mourshed, Chijioke, and Barber (2010) further emphasize the importance of high level recruitment in their analysis of school systems around the world that have shown substantial improvement.”