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Education at a Glance 2009

Presentation
Andreas Schleicher
Head of the Indicator and Analysis Division
OECD Directorate for Education

Discussant
John Q. Easton
Director, Institute of Education Sciences
US Department of Education

Friday, September 11, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building
Room 2261
Washington DC, 20515
9:30-10:30 AM Presentation, 9:00 AM Registration

While the series is free of charge, we ask that you please
register by Thursday, September 10 for security reasons.

Event Description:

The 2009 edition of the OECD’s Education at a Glance focuses on the economic returns and social outcomes of education. One of its main conclusions: With employment markets still weak, now is a good time to invest in education.

An annual compendium of comparable statistics on topics ranging from how long students spend in the classroom to how many drop out of secondary education, Education at a Glance provides valuable underpinning for policy debate and decisions by national education authorities.

Andreas Schleicher will discuss the US education system, and the long-term and emerging trends in how it compares with the education systems of our economic competitors. John Easton will provide comments from the US perspective.

Biographies:

Andreas Schleicher has been Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division at the OECD Directorate for Education since 2002. As Division Head, his responsibilities include directing the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the OECD Indicators of Education Systems programme (INES) as well as steering the development of new projects such as the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). He has also held the posts of Deputy Head of the Statistics and Indicators Division in the former OECD Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (1997-2002) and Project Manager in the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) (1994-1996). Before joining the OECD, he served as Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA) within the Institute for Educational Research in the Netherlands (1993-1994) and International Co-ordinator for the IEA Reading Literacy Study, at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1989-1992). Originally a graduate in physics, he subsequently studied mathematics at Deakin University in Australia, where his master's thesis received the Bruce Choppin Award.

John Q. Easton, the president's nominee for director of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), was confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2009, for a term of six years. IES is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. It encompasses the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, the National Center for Education Research, and the National Center for Special Education Research.Easton comes to IES from Chicago, where most recently he was executive director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. Easton served a term (2003-07) on the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policies for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the "Nation's Report Card." In 2008, he was awarded a presidential citation from the American Educational Research Association for "research leadership and evaluation studies focused on improving the nature and quality of education in a large urban city." Easton holds a Ph.D. in measurement, evaluation, and statistical analysis from the University of Chicago; a master's degree from Western Washington University; and a bachelor's degree from Hobart College. He is the author or coauthor of numerous reports and articles, and two books: Charting Chicago School Reform: Democratic Localism as a Lever for Change and Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in fall 2009.

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