Review of McKinsey report: How the world’s best performing school systems come out on top

By H. Braun. 2008

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Teacher Agency : What Is It and Why Does It Matter? (2015, positive): “Powerful discourses recently driving global education policy have emphasised the important role of teachers as the most significant within-school influence on school improvement (OECD, 2005; McKinsey & Co., 2007).”
Serious doubts about school effectiveness (2010, background): “Almost by default the answer to the second question has been assumed by most research users to be ‘yes’ (Sanders, 2000; Barber & Mourshed, 2007).”
Emerging perceptions of teacher quality and teacher development in China (2014, background): “This can have serious consequences for the quality of education because, as Barber and Mourshed (2007) have pointed out in their survey of what makes effective schools effective, there is some evidence of a correspondence between high performing schools and the qualifications and training of the…”
Selecting teachers and prospective teachers: A meta-analysis (2018, background): “Countries with high-performing education systems, like Singapore (Sclafani, 2015) and Finland (Sahlberg, 2015), tend to place high levels of importance on developing rigorous approaches for teacher and prospective teacher selection (Barber & Mourshed, 2007; Hobson et al., 2010).”
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality. Working Paper 56. (2010, background): “The policy of eliminating the least effective teachers is very consistent with the McKinsey analysis of the policies found in high-performing school systems around the world (Barber and Mourshed 2007).”
Teaching and Learning 21st Century Skills (2012, neutral): “96 Fullan & Watson, 2011; McKinsey & Company, 2007.”
PISA and high-performing education systems: explaining Singapore’s education success (2016, background): “Furthermore, highperforming systems are committed to continuing to enhance the quality of in-service teachers through providing them with a myriad of opportunities and resources for continuous professional development (Barber and Mourshed, 2007; Darling-Hammond and Rothman, 2011; Sahlberg 2011; L. C”