{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Short description|US nonprofit organization}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Redirect|NCEE}} {{Infobox organization | name = National Center on Education and the Economy | full_name = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | abbreviation = NCEE | formation = 1988 | founder = | founding_location = Rochester, New York | type = | tax_id = <!-- or | vat_id = (for European organizations) --> | registration_id = not-for-profit | status = | purpose = | professional_title = | headquarters = Washington, DC | region_served = | products = | services = | methods = | fields = | membership = | num_members_year = | language = | board_of_directors = | key_people = {{Unbulleted list | Marc Tucker, founder, president and CEO (1988–2019) | Anthony Mackay, president and CEO (2019–present) }} | main_organ = | budget = | budget_year = | revenue = | revenue_year = | disbursements = | expenses = | expenses_year = | endowment = | endowment_year = | num_staff = | num_staff_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | website = {{URL|https://ncee.org/}} }}
The '''National Center on Education and the Economy''' ('''NCEE''') is an American not-for-profit education research, advocacy, and educator professional learning organization based in Washington, DC,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-07-22|title=What We Know About San Diego Unified's Superintendent Search|url=http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/the-learning-curve-what-we-know-about-san-diego-unifieds-superintendent-search/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Voice of San Diego|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED384971|title=Building a System To Invest in People: States on the Cutting Edge|date=1995|publisher=National Center on Education and the Economy, 39 State Street, Suite 500, Rochester, NY 14614.|isbn=978-0-9627063-6-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Yang Keo|first=Seng-Dao|date=2016-05-03|title=Changing How Schools and the Profession Are Organized: Building a Foundation for a National System of Teacher Career Ladders at the National Center on Education and the Economy|url=https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27013341|language=en}}</ref> that first formed in 1988 as the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy.
NCEE has a history of contributing to influential research reports<ref>{{Cite web|title=No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State|url=https://www.ncsl.org/research/education/no-time-to-lose-how-to-build-a-world-class-education-system-state-by-state.aspx|access-date=2022-02-15|website=www.ncsl.org}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Delander|first=Bradley|date=June 24, 2014|title=Marc Tucker to receive the 2014 ECS James Bryant Conant Award|work=Education Commission of the States|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/29/biden-education-childcare-global/|access-date=February 14, 2022}}</ref> on public education in the United States and advocating for large-scale education reform<ref name="Herszenhorn">{{Cite news|last=Herszenhorn|first=David M.|date=2006-12-15|title=Expert Panel Proposes Far-Reaching Redesign of the American Education System|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/education/15school.html|access-date=2022-02-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> based on its international benchmarking research<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-07|title=The US spends more on education than other countries. Why is it falling behind?|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/us-education-spending-finland-south-korea|access-date=2022-02-15|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> on high-performing, equitable education systems around the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title=State leaders share progress on building 'world-class' education systems|url=https://www.k12dive.com/news/state-leaders-share-progress-on-building-world-class-education-systems/560444/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=K-12 Dive|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Biden's plans to expand free education may be new for America. But in other countries, they're the norm.|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/29/biden-education-childcare-global/|access-date=2022-02-15|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Its framework and model is presented in the ''[https://ncee.org/blueprint/ Blueprint for a High-Performing Education System].''
It has partnered with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL),<ref>{{Cite web|title=NCSL Forms International Study Group Aimed at Improving Education|url=https://www.ncsl.org/press-room/ncsl-forms-international-study-group-aimed-at-improving-education.aspx|access-date=2022-02-15|website=www.ncsl.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=State Legislators Launch Study Group|url=https://www.sreb.org/news/state-legislators-launch-study-group|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Southern Regional Education Board|date=10 December 2015 |language=en}}</ref> the U.S. Department of Education,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schleicher|first=Andreas|date=2021-10-21|title=Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/f43c1728-en|journal=International Summit on the Teaching Profession|doi=10.1787/f43c1728-en|isbn=9789264913431 |s2cid=244579621 |issn=2312-7090|url-access=subscription}}</ref> the U.S. Department of Labor,<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Pitsch|first=Mark|date=1995-01-25|title=Clinton Announces Four of 12 to National Skill Standards Board|language=en|work=Education Week|url=https://www.edweek.org/education/clinton-announces-four-of-12-to-national-skill-standards-board/1995/01|access-date=2022-02-15|issn=0277-4232}}</ref> school districts,<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Superintendent Search Community Engagement Begins|url=https://sandiegounified.org/about/newscenter/archived_news/archived_news_march_2021_-_july_2022/superintendent_search_community_engagement_begins|access-date=2022-02-15|website=sandiegounified.org|language=en-US}}</ref> state education departments,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Education Details|url=https://www.media.pa.gov:443/Pages/Education-Details.aspx?newsid=557|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Pennsylvania Pressroom|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite press release|last=Education|first=Pennsylvania Department of|title=Pa. Department of Education Launches First Superintendent's Academy|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pa-department-of-education-launches-first-superintendents-academy-300270293.html|access-date=2022-02-15|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en}}</ref> and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lessons from PISA for the United States|url=https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/lessons-from-pisa-for-the-united-states_9789264096660-en|access-date=2022-02-15|website=www.oecd-ilibrary.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-06|title=Learning from the past, looking to the future: Excellence and equity for all|url=https://www.ei-ie.org/en/item/25586:learning-from-the-past-looking-to-the-future-excellence-and-equity-for-all|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Education International|language=en}}</ref> on landmark education reports.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OECD's Education at a Glance 2021 to be published Thursday 16 September 2021 - OECD|url=https://search.oecd.org/newsroom/oecds-education-at-a-glance-2021-to-be-published-thursday-16-september-2021.htm|access-date=2022-02-15|website=search.oecd.org}}</ref> It has conducted oversees research and site visits of top-performing countries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NIE receives strong accolade as a world-class teacher education organisation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216043024/https://nie.edu.sg/our-people/programme-offices/office-of-teacher-education/global-education-innovation-initiative/events-and-updates_us-national-center-on-education-and-the-economy-(ncee)-the-center-on-international-education-benchmarking-(cieb)-and-the-national-institute-for-school-leadership-(nisl)-visited-nie2 |archive-date=16 Feb 2022 |url=https://nie.edu.sg/our-people/programme-offices/office-of-teacher-education/global-education-innovation-initiative/events-and-updates_us-national-center-on-education-and-the-economy-(ncee)-the-center-on-international-education-benchmarking-(cieb)-and-the-national-institute-for-school-leadership-(nisl)-visited-nie2 |access-date=2022-02-15 |website=nie.edu.sg}}</ref>
Its funders include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Stupski Foundation, and the Wallace Foundation.<ref name="Herszenhorn"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Funders|url=https://ncee.org/about-us/funders/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=NCEE|language=en-US}}</ref>
NCEE's mission is, "To analyze the implications of changes in the international economy for American education, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carry it out."<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ncee.org |title = NCEE | National Center on Education and the Economy}}</ref>
==History== Its precursor, the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, was established by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1985.<ref name="NCEE_History">{{Cite web| work = NCEE |title= History of NCEE| access-date = March 1, 2020| url = http://ncee.org/who-we-are/history-of-ncee/ |location=Washington, DC}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=August 2021}} The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards was established in response to a 1986 report by Marc Tucker, "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century." This Board established the NCEE in 1988 with Tucker as founder, CEO, and president<ref name="ASCD_Tucker">{{Cite web| series = Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) |title=Marc Tucker| access-date = March 1, 2020| url = http://www.ascd.org/Publications/ascd-authors/marc-tucker.aspx}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> and based first in Rochester, New York.
Since 1989, NCEE has been researching the countries that consistently lead the world in the quality of their education systems when the performance of their students is compared to the performance of students in other countries.<ref>{{Cite press release|last=Economy (NCEE)|first=National Center on Education and the|title=National Center on Education and the Economy to Receive Endowment|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-center-on-education-and-the-economy-to-receive-endowment-99859049.html|access-date=2022-02-15|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en}}</ref> Major reports and publications NCEE has worked on include: ''[https://www.amazon.com/Nation-Prepared-Teachers-Teaching-Profession/dp/0961668504 A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century]'' [https://ncee.org/book-report/americas-choice-high-skills-or-low-wages/ A''merica's Choice'']'': High Skills or Low Wages'', [https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/lessons-from-pisa-for-the-united-states_9789264096660-en ''Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education''], and ''[https://www.ncsl.org/research/education/no-time-to-lose-how-to-build-a-world-class-education-system-state-by-state.aspx No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State].''
NCEE also participated in the National Skill Standards Board for the U.S. Department of Labor.<ref name=":2" />
NCEE launched the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) in 1999 as an educator professional learning and leadership development program.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WWC {{!}} National Institute for School Leadership (NISL)|url=https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Intervention/1165|access-date=2022-02-15|website=ies.ed.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://ncee.org/about-us/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=NCEE|date=12 May 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2010, NCEE organized a pilot program with a $1.5 million planning grant from the Gates Foundation, that helped NCEE "work with states and districts" develop their Early College High School (ECHS) programs, through which students could take a mixture of high school and college classes, and receive both a high school diploma and up to two years of college credits. The goal was to insure that "students have mastered a set of basic requirements" and to reduce the "numbers of high school graduates who need remedial courses when they enroll in college."<ref name="NYT_Dillon_20100217">{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Dillon| first = Sam| title = High Schools to Offer Plan to Graduate 2 Years Early| work = The New York Times| access-date = March 1, 2020| date = February 17, 2010| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/education/18educ.html}}</ref><ref name="NYT_Lewin_20100208">{{Cite news| title = For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw |first= Tamar |last=Lewin|newspaper= The New York Times| access-date = March 1, 2020|date=February 8, 2010| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/education/08school.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/publications/Unconventional_Wisdom_PDF_033011.pdf |title=Unconventional Wisdom: A Profile of the Graduates of Early College High School |first1=Michael |last1=Webb |first2=Lia |last2=Mayka |date=March 2011 |work=Jobs for the Future |access-date=July 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513050035/http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/publications/Unconventional_Wisdom_PDF_033011.pdf |archive-date=May 13, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/13/america-s-best-high-schools-in-a-different-class.html |title=America's Best High Schools in a Different Class |work=Newsweek |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119122403/http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/13/america-s-best-high-schools-in-a-different-class.html |archive-date=January 19, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.newsweek.com/nations-most-elite-public-high-schools-73623?piano_t=1 |title=The Nation's Most Elite Public High Schools |first=Jay |last=Mathews |work=Newsweek |date=July 13, 2010 |access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref>
NCEE's Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) funds and conducts research to identify education strategies from countries that have top-performing education systems and whose students score well on the Programme for International Student Assessment, among other metrics.<ref name="CIEB">{{Cite web|url=http://ncee.org/what-we-do/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/|title=NCEE {{!}} Center on International Education Benchmarking|website=ncee.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-12-17}}</ref>
NCEE was a consultant for the Kirwan Commission as it developed the ''Blueprint for Maryland's Future''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-02-12|title=The Blueprint for Maryland's Future / Kirwan Commission|url=https://mdaeyc.org/blueprint/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=MDAEYC|language=en-US}}</ref> passed by the Maryland State Legislature in 2020,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Broadwater|first=Luke|title=Maryland Senate passes sweeping schools reform bill with amendments that would halt plan in bad economy|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-kirwan-commission-maryland-senate-amended-passage-20200317-z3pnhagkcrh75pjmvf2xrntuxe-story.html|access-date=2022-02-16|website=baltimoresun.com|date=17 March 2020 }}</ref> which included NCEE's "9 Building Blocks for a World-Class Education System" as a component of its work.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.mabe.org/adequacy-funding/|title = Priority Issue: The Kirwan Commission & The Blueprint for America's Future|website=Maryland Association of Boards of Education}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Maryland Commission on Innovation & Excellence in Education Preliminary Report |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000113/022600/022621/20180174e.pdf |website=Maryland State Archives |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sweeping Maryland education plan seeks equity, improvement|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sweeping-maryland-education-plan-seeks-equity-improvement-68048620|access-date=2022-02-15|website=ABC News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=WITTE|first=BRIAN|title=Maryland House overrides veto of major education measure; Senate could act this week|url=https://www.capitalgazette.com/politics/ac-cn-bc-md-xgr-education-funding-maryland-20210208-behgkmlirjcutcwux6afeeo4ra-story.html|access-date=2022-02-15|website=capitalgazette.com|date=8 February 2021 }}</ref> It has also worked with the Pennsylvania state education department to create a superintendent leadership program.<ref name=":3" />
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== External links == * [https://ncee.org/ Official NCEE website]
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